Textfields

[sherlockturtle]

SO if you have a text field and a function that adds sentences to it. WHen they get bigger than the text field it makes it have a scroll bar. BUt it always starts at the top(the scroll bar of the text field). Is there a way to keep the scroll bar at the bottom so your always looking at the new text.

[sherlockturtle]

anyone

[Sammy12]

I think a <textarea> would be a great solution to your problem!
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp

Originally Posted by sherlockturtle

WHen they get bigger than the text field it makes it have a scroll bar.

That's what a textarea is!

Originally Posted by sherlockturtle

BUt it always starts at the top(the scroll bar of the text field). Is there a way to keep the scroll bar at the bottom so your always looking at the new text.

Maybe you could post a picture, so we can better understand what the problem is!
here's a <textarea>, if you could open this up in paint and draw where the problem is, that would be great!

[questionable]

Yeah, <textarea> will make your life nice.

[sherlockturtle]

ohh sorry i meant a text area

[Sammy12]

an image of the problem you are having would be great!

[sherlockturtle]

Its hard do show with an image but the problem is theres a text area and a function that adds an sentence. But when the sentance is added it does not scroll to the bottom of the textarea it stays at the top.

[Sammy12]

I don't think it can be done in CSS, since html doesn't parse within a textarea, so the usual css jump with ids doesn't work!
If I'm not mistaken there isn't a way to do this in javascript, but I actually can't say, since I never had to do this type of stuff, css jumps were the best solution.

Try posting this in the javascript forum, or maybe the admins/mods will move the thread!

EDIT: maybe if the textarea was initially in a div, then swapped into a textarea once the id was found?

[alykins]

would also be helpful to see the script that is writing to the textarea