making text boxes scroll down

[iamjarad]

I am writing to multiple text boxes. Is there a way that the text boxes will scroll down as the program writes additional lines to them? ...without giving them focus, if possible?

 

[dm4ever]

window.document.getElementById("txtarea1").scrollTop = 10000

- txtarea1 would be the id of the textarea
- 10000 would be a very large number to keep scrolling down...a higher number would be needed depending on the lines in the textarea

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dm4ever
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[dmcdivitt]

To do this, on the server side I count the number of line feed characters in the text blob, then set the number of lines in the text box. Use a horizontal scroll to prevent word wrap.

If not doing a web application, in Microsoft Access or a VB program I would examine window bits and see if scroll bars had appeared, and if so, increase the text box height.

 

[dmcdivitt]

Another way to do this is use a <td> tag in a table, give it an ID attribute, and update the innertext property. You can give the <td> a border and make it look like a text box.