side menu bar thingy

sorry, i dont really know what it is called, but how do you get the side menu bar thing that scrolls down, not the thing where it just has a little sort of picture with a drop down, i mean another thing that looks like it would be a skiny seporate window but it is in the same window as the normal one. sorry if im being a little confusing, but im only 15 and im sitting here in my grade 10 comm tech class trying to figure this out, it would be gratly aprecieated if you could help

Are you talking about a scrolling window within a window? Maybe a frame type thingy jiggy?

ya pretty much, i have a relly bad teacher that dosnt tell me squat, i probably know more about this stuff then he does, or at least i show it more then he does. he sits there all day looking at stupid emails and if somone asks a question he tells them to come to me, and if i ask a question he makes up dumb answers to questions i didnt even ask. sorry if im rambling, but the answer to your question is ya, i think it would be best described as window in a window with a scrolly thingy :P

in rereading your post, I don't know if you are meaning a FORM field that has items in it for you to choose (simliar to the drop down thingy, but without the dropdown part) or do you mean that you want a "pane" in your page that you can make the information within it scroll when it's too much to fit in the pane?

tell me what you are working on. Or find some example online and show me that.. and I'll help ou figure what you need. You could also be referencing a "scroller". I pane that has info in it that scrolls all on it's own.

well, i was looking for a site, i remember going to some over the years but i compleatly forget what they were, luckily i searched web photo album and i found a screen shot of some wierd album creator program that has what i want in it, just ignore all the crap around it and the pic, but that is exacly what i want, a little scrolly thing at the side with pics going down and when you click on one it shows up in the main site

The image you have shown uses FRAMES to get the required result. The page is split into two frames, the thin left frame and the main body frame. The content for the left frame comes from one page, the contents of which are the image thumbnails. Each thumbnail has a link to the main image and the target attribute of the image is set to the main body frame. The main body content comes from another page which simply displays the full size image.

There are many tutorials on using frames, but they are dated and dropping rapidly out of favour with designers, webstandards, search engines et al. There are other, more advanced ways to achieve what you want.

well, you sort of helped me, but remember, im only 15, i really have no idea what to do, so could you meby explain that in html? meby i could copy and paste it and pigure it out from there, just saying what it is wont help me much, thanks anyway though

The aim was to give you information so that you could then do further research into the use of FRAMES. A simple search for frame tutorials will return more results than you could work through.

Here's one for free though. This is a sample from w3schools a resource you should familiarise yourself with.

I won't write code from scratch for you, I would rather you learnt for yourself, but if you get stuck or have any problems or further questions I'll gladly help.