Dynamically Resizing A Text Field With Auto Scroll If Beyond Screen Resolution.
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Originally Posted by Delmundo
Dynamically resizing a text field I have a dynamic textfield that I'm reading data into from a text file. All works fine, except that I need to physically drag the textbox down to create more space for the content.
The content will invariably not be of one length, it'll be changing on a weekly basis, so my question is: is there a way of setting the size of the textfield depending on how much content it contains, so all the content is displayed?
Firstly thank you for the advice and information you posted regarding the above link. I found it really helpful, exactly what I was hunting for. I have done a bit more research trying to see if there were a way for me to have scroll bars appear for my resized text feild if the content were to go beyond the viewable area. This would regard screen resolution I guess?
So if viewers were on a smaller screen size the scroll bars would appear, but no scroll bars for people on large monitors.
The best exmple of it I have seen is here choose PRESS then check out the way Biography resizes.
Hope I am clear.
Thanks for your prior help
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Posted on: 06-09-2005, 04:31 AM
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