Using a textarea for scrollable text display

[bamboo]

I know this is a lame way to do this, but thought I'd post a question to see if there is a better way to do this w/o using Flash. I'm using a form <textarea> to display the actual text of the page. In my instance it's for my clients tour schedule (she's a musician). It works great and I just set the properties to 'read-only'.

My question is if there is a better way to do this besides using the <textarea>. Maybe a JS or DHTML way. I know you can do this nicely with Flash with the up arrow down arrow to scroll, but don't have the time to learn Flash and create this.

I would also like to find a way to justify the text within this scrolling text area if at all possible. But first things first. Any recommendations/suggestions would be great.

 

[tsdragon]

Use a div with scroll=auto

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[stormbind]

As Tracy said, or you can learn DHTML and clone whatever you are visualising in Flash. DHTML is widely under-estimated

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[bamboo]

Can you provide an example of the div w/ scroll=auto. I'm not quite understanding this. The div would be for alignment? And scroll=auto would be within the <textarea> tag?

 

[stormbind]

as an alternative to textarea but it may require extensive tweaking to get the result you expect.

<div style="scroll:auto;">schedule goes here</div>



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[stormbind]

another solution would be the iframe tag

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[bamboo]

Thanks Glen! Ya, let me research this. I'm not familiar with the <div> other then <div align="..">.

 

[ChrisHirst]

that should be overflow:auto for the div

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