NS 6 Multiline control display

[vinayak]

hi,
I want to avoid displaying horizontal scroll bar in a TEXTAREA for a continious text in Netscape 6 and above and IE 5 and above as well.

I'm using the following code in JSP.

<textarea name=&quot;txa&quot; cols=&quot;50&quot; style=&quot;OVERFLOW: auto&quot; rows=&quot;4&quot; ></textarea>

Above code works well in IE 5 however it fails in NS 6.2

Let me know if I need to use any other styles in addition to the above &quot;style=&quot;OVERFLOW: auto&quot;.

 

[iza]

if you read the doc, for overflow:auto, it says &quot;If the content is clipped, the browser should display a scroll-bar to see the rest of the content&quot;
so i guess this is NOT what you wanted to do !! maybe you should try overflow:visible : &quot;The content is not clipped. It renders outside the element&quot; or overflow:hidden &quot;The content is clipped, but the browser does not display a scroll-bar to see the rest of the content&quot;
taken from

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp

 

[vinayak]

The auto behavior is different in NS6 and IE5. What I'm looking for is No horizontal scroll (Vertical OK) when long is text is clipped and displayed on the sreen.

 

[starway]

Did you try using WRAP attribute of the <taxtarea> tag?
I don't remember what value do you need, but it is one of these:

<textarea ... wrap=&quot;physical&quot;> or &quot;virtual&quot;

 

[vinayak]

When thee is a continious (say QQQQQ.......)text in textarea, the text should wrap around and only vertical scroll bar should appear on both IE and NS.