Primefaces Scrollable Layout - jsf-2

Question

Is it possible to make a Primefaces Layout Scrollable? I dont want to make my layoutUnits scrollable as I dont really want multiple scrollable elements on the pages. I would prefer for the page & content panels to resize according to the content, so the user can view the data in a linear fashion. I am currently using a full page primefaces layout:
<p:layout fullPage="true">
If this isnt possible then what is my best alternatives as I quite like the primefaces components but could live without its layout features.
Cheers

Answer 1

You can create a layoutUnit for center, then provide a style class in it, where in your css you can provide scrollable along to x and y position.
<p:layoutUnit position="center">
<div id="myScreen" class="right col scroll-x scroll-y">
<ui:insert name="content">My Screen Content Goes Here</ui:insert>
</div>
</p:layoutUnit>
And in cc file --
.col {
top: 0; bottom: 0;
}
.scroll-x {
overflow-x: auto;
}
.scroll-y {
overflow-y: auto;
}
Hope this would help.

Answer 2

as far as i can tell it cannot be done! I dumped the primefaces layout and went with a generic web layout...

Answer 3

Just put everything in a <p:scrollPanel> component inside the <p:layoutunit>, that will work (now that it's 2015 and we are on Primefaces v5.1.x!). Make sure you add absolute positioning and height to stretch the <p:scrollPanel> to the innards of the <p:layoutunit> - see below.
http://www.primefaces.org/showcase/ui/panel/scrollPanel.xhtml
<p:scrollPanel mode="native" style="position: absolute; height: 100%;">
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</p:scrollPanel>

Answer 4

I don't believe that layouts are right for what you want to do here. This is good for enabling templating on a single page and the such. You might be able to however put an iframe within a layoutUnit to emulate the same effect though I have never tried this personally and couldn't tell you if it will work or not.