Making a readonly <textarea> scrollable

[tas2826]

I have a text area on a page that is used to hold auto generated comments based on user actions on the page. I do not want them to edit this textarea, so it is readonly. However, in IE then it will not scroll because the scrollbar is disabled too.

I have to use <textarea>, so is there a way to make a readonly textarea be scrollable? I had read some post regarding applying some kind of style that would allow this. Can anyone provide a example of the CSS to make this happen?

Here is the tag.

<textarea name="comment" disabled="true" id="comment" cols="57" rows="2" readonly wrap="soft"></textarea>

Thanks in advance for the help.

Troy

 

[tas2826]

Never mind.

Must be Friday or something. I see where I was wrong. Helps if I take the disabled='true' out. No wonder the scrollbar did not work. Dang copy/paste!

 

[Vragabond]

If textarea is not editable, then it would seem that textarea is not the element you want. Why do you need to use textarea?

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