Re: Please help me create a scrolling text box

Big McLargehuge <Big@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>I wanted to include a text box (not for input, but with text that the
>reader has to scroll down to read all of it) in my webpage

Stop wanting that, they are a usability nightmare. Scrolling these boxes
with the mouse is poorly supported, keyboard users often cannot scroll
them at all.

If there is to much content to insert it on a page, insert only a bit of
it with a [more] link beneath it that links to the full text.

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Spartanicus
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