Scrolling on the iPhone

Sunday, February 10, 2008

Certain web pages have scrolling areas (usually iFrames or scrolling layers) used to better organize content without extending the height or width of a page. On the iphone, these scrolling areas do not show the usual "scroll bar" visible in your desktop web browser. However, despite the lack of a visual cue that the area is scrollable, iPhone Safari allows users to scroll inside these areas using a "two finger" scroll. Whereas traditionally, one would use a single finger to move up or down on a website, to scroll on these pages, simply use two fingers over the scrolling area to move "just" that area up or down. Since some scrolling areas are small, it may be easier to do this after first zooming into the scroll area.

To read a post from Apple on this topic, click here.

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