For purposes of embedding very long Gists from Github in a Wordpress blog, what code will permit me to set the height so that vertical scroll-bars are generated? Something
<style type="text/css">
.gist {width:500px !important;}
.gist-file
.gist-data {max-height: 500px;max-width: 500px;}
</style>
<script src="https://gist.github.com/user-name/123456789.js"></script>
Example: Boilerplate webpage borrowed from : http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/a-sample-web-page-in-html.html [The answer works as advertised as of February 24, 2016 with Firefox 44.0.2 on OSX Snow Leopard 10.6.8.]
<html>
<!-- Text between angle brackets is an HTML tag and is not displayed.
Most tags, such as the HTML and /HTML tags that surround the contents of
a page, come in pairs; some tags, like HR, for a horizontal rule, stand
alone. Comments, such as the text you're reading, are not displayed when
the Web page is shown. The information between the HEAD and /HEAD tags is
not displayed. The information between the BODY and /BODY tags is displayed.-->
<head>
<title>Enter a title, displayed at the top of the window.</title>
</head>
<!-- The information between the BODY and /BODY tags is displayed.-->
<style type="text/css">
.gist {width:300px !important;}
.gist-file
.gist-data {max-height: 300px;max-width: 300px;}
</style>
<body>
<h1>Enter the main heading, usually the same as the title.</h1>
<p>Be <b>bold</b> in stating your key points. Put them in a list: </p>
<ul>
<li>The first item in your list</li>
<li>The second item; <i>italicize</i> key words</li>
</ul>
<p>Improve your image by including an image. </p>
<p><img src="http://www.mygifs.com/CoverImage.gif" alt="A Great HTML Resource"></p>
<p>Add a link to your favorite <a href="http://www.dummies.com/">Web site</a>.
Break up your page with a horizontal rule or two. </p>
<hr>
<p>Finally, link to <a href="page2.html">another page</a> in your own Web site.</p>
<!-- And add a copyright notice.-->
<p>© Wiley Publishing, 2011</p>
<script src="https://gist.github.com/lawlist/12345678.js"></script>
</body>
</html>
None of the above answers work anymore. Here is the updated CSS that displays the gist correctly with visible scrollbars where needed.
.gist {
max-width:350px;
overflow:auto;
}
.gist .blob-wrapper.data {
max-height:200px;
overflow:auto;
}
See this blog post for example: How to set custom height and width of embedded Github Gist.
If your gist is inside an iFrame, which is generated and you can't access since it's and embedded HTML, you might want to take a look at this.
They seem to have changed something, so now you need to do this:
<style type="text/css"> .gist {width:500px; overflow:auto} .gist .file-data {max-height: 500px;max-width: 500px;} </style>