function scrollToBottom(el) { el.scrollTop=el.scrollHeight; } will make the textarea jump to the last line - could probably do with more work and only tested in FF2 win but hopefully will set you on the right track. cheers On 10/30/06, John Warner <john at jwarner.com> wrote: > > Is there a way to scroll a textarea using Javascript, what I want to do > is scroll the text without the user taking action with the mouse. Say I > have a text area sized to show say 5 lines of text but actually contains > say 25 lines of text, can I either style or using JS cause the text area > to scroll to the bottom? Any ideas on how? > > Thanks > > John Warner > > > _______________________________________________ > Javascript mailing list > Javascript at LaTech.edu > https://lists.LaTech.edu/mailman/listinfo/javascript > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.evolt.org/pipermail/javascript/attachments/20061030/2d6b442d/attachment.htm>