Scrolling

There are many way to scroll to see further down a page. We will first use the scroll bar on the right side of the windows.

Lincoln is standing on the
next number.


Long Abraham Lincoln A Little Longer, Harper's Weekly November 26, 1864

Next

To get to Lincoln's feet:

  1. Move arrow to the lower right corner of this window..
  2. Place the tip of the arrow on the down-pointing triangle .
  3. Hold down mouse button until the number twenty-five appears below Lincoln's feet.


Using the Scroll Bar

Clicking to see the lower part of a page is called scrolling down.

To see the upper part of a page,
click the up-pointing triangle on the upper right. This is scrolling up.

Scroll up and down a few times by clicking and on the right.

While scrolling up and down notice a bar between and also moves up and down.




Another way to scroll is:

The , , and the space between them is called the scroll bar. The size of the scroll bar is proportional to the size of the document. In other words the bar may appear shorter for a very long document.

scrollbar
  1. Place the arrow on this bar
  2. Hold down the mouse button.
  3. Move the mouse forward to scroll up and backward to scroll down.






To move on to the next page, click the Next under Lincoln.




This political cartoon, "Long Abraham Lincoln A Little Longer," was published by
Harper's Weekly on November 26, 1864 after Lincoln won his second presidential election.