[chrismorgan]

And using an inner scrolling area for the content instead of the document scrolling area is very problematic for keyboard users, unless you focus the true scrollable pane on load, and ensure that any time the body becomes the active element, you change it back to the scrollable pane. This is fiddly to get right, and requires JavaScript; I should finish the blog post I started writing on the topic. I made sure we got it as right as possible for Fastmail’s webmail, but I don’t think I’ve ever encountered any other site using an inner scrolling area even trying to get it right.

As it is, keyboard users will have to press Tab seven times before the keyboard navigation keys (arrows, Space, Shift+Space, Page Up, Page Down, Home, End) work.

For this reason, I strongly recommend that websites (as distinct from web apps) avoid placing article content within a new scrolling area. Use the document scroll area.

[zzo38computer]

Yes, I see that too much too, although in this case I just disabled CSS. (In other cases, I sometimes click with the mouse on the area I want to scroll and then use the arrows and page up and page down keys to scroll.)

> For this reason, I strongly recommend that websites (as distinct from web apps) avoid placing article content within a new scrolling area. Use the document scroll area.

I agree with this.