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How can I set the scroll bar position in a textarea to the bottom of the textarea + 1 other simple question

Asked by: liseperu

Hello experts

How can I set the scroll bar position in a textarea to the bottom of the textarea
also how can i apply formatting to text inside the textarea
for example i want to make some text bold and some italic
and everything i have tried just shows up the tags
and not the actual formatting

thanks people

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2005-07-16 at 18:03:20ID21494182
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position

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set

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textarea

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scroll

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bar

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Miscellaneous Web Development

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Answers

 

by: rnagliPosted on 2005-07-16 at 19:39:49ID: 14460042

Enclose it in div, disable scrolling on textarea.. It's easy to control scrolling on div using javascript.
textarea has readOnly property , set it to "true"...

 

by: liseperuPosted on 2005-07-16 at 20:00:59ID: 14460079

thats great thats solved all my problems with formating
all i need to do now is find  a piece of code to postiiton my scroll bar
got any links up your sleeve?

thanks again

 

by: pegasysPosted on 2005-07-17 at 02:39:05ID: 14460897

1) you cant do formatting in a text area, it is plain text. You need to find some sort of DHTML Rick Text editor for that.

2) Most DHTML editors scross either way

 

by: liseperuPosted on 2005-07-17 at 04:51:43ID: 14461079

okay just to recap
i hav sorted all the orignal problems out
expect positioning the scroll bar at the bottom of the div instead of the top
i have searched for some code on the net
but to no availl

if anyone has any links or snippets up their sleeve let me know

 

by: msa2003Posted on 2005-07-17 at 10:52:02ID: 14462150

Use offsetHeight to determine the TextArea height, scrollHeight to determine the total length of text in the textarea (in pixels) and scrollTop to set the position of the scrollbar like in the example below:

<html>
<head>
<script>
function Down() {
  el=document.getElementById('sample1');
  el.scrollTop = el.scrollHeight - el.offsetHeight;
}
function Up() {
  el=document.getElementById('sample1');
  el.scrollTop = 0;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea id="sample1">
line #1
line #2
line #3
line #4
line #5
line #6
line #7
line #8
line #9
line #10
line #11
line #12
line #13
line #14
line #15
</textarea><br>
<input type="button" onclick="Up();" value="Up">
<input type="button" onclick="Down();" value="Down">
</body>
</html>

 

by: msa2003Posted on 2005-07-17 at 10:53:37ID: 14462169

You cannot apply formatting to the text in textarea. Use MS HTML Editor ActiveX object instead.

 

by: liseperuPosted on 2005-07-19 at 20:47:50ID: 14481436

thanks everyone
i created a div as suggested and completely removed the textarea
everything is great now

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