textarea scrollbar behavior

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Michael Thorne

When a large amount of text has been placed into an
HTML text area such that the scroll bars become active,
I'm seeong the following in IE 6.0.2800.1106 / SP1;
Q824145; Q330994:

you can cursor up and down the text

you can move the slider up and down

and all works correctly

but

once you touch the up or down arrow control buttons
the slider and text go to the bottom and the only
way to move the text is to cursor with in it.


Is this a known problem?

Is there a fix or work around?


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Thanks,

mxt
 
I've seen the exact same thing. Tonight I narrowed it down to IE 6.0 sp1 (versus IE 5.5). I also found that having wrapped text is required to make the problem occur.

I determined this with the following very simple HTML page which I borrowed from AOL's web-interface email composing page:
<html><body><textarea id="mailBody" tabindex=4 name="mailBody" style="width: 100%; height:150px; border:1px solid #000000" cols=52 rows=2></textarea></body></html>

If you create a page and type into the box, and make sure that you don't wrap any text, you don't get the problem.
The instant you wrap any text, then the problem Michael describes occurs.

If you use the same page with IE5.5, this problem does not occur.

Seems like an obvious bug in IE6 SP1.

I'm experience this bug even now with the input text box I'm entering this reply in!!! (there is text wrap near the top of this message and right here...)

Mark G.
----- Michael Thorne wrote: -----

When a large amount of text has been placed into an
HTML text area such that the scroll bars become active,
I'm seeong the following in IE 6.0.2800.1106 / SP1;
Q824145; Q330994:

you can cursor up and down the text

you can move the slider up and down

and all works correctly

but

once you touch the up or down arrow control buttons
the slider and text go to the bottom and the only
way to move the text is to cursor with in it.


Is this a known problem?

Is there a fix or work around?


Please reply to (e-mail address removed)

Thanks,

mxt
 
Today Windows Update informed me that there was a general Internet Explorer patch, critical due to security reasons. I installed the patch and discovered that this text area problem has gone away

My "About Internet Explorer" item reads: SP1; Q824145, Q330994, Q832894. I don't know how these codes correlate with what I installed, although my Windows Installer history indicates that I just installed Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer 6 Service Pack 1 (KB832894). So, it looks like Q832894 could be the key indicator of whether or not you have the fix

-- Mark G

----- Mark G. wrote: ----

I've seen the exact same thing. Tonight I narrowed it down to IE 6.0 sp1 (versus IE 5.5). I also found that having wrapped text is required to make the problem occur

I determined this with the following very simple HTML page which I borrowed from AOL's web-interface email composing page
<html><body><textarea id="mailBody" tabindex=4 name="mailBody" style="width: 100%; height:150px; border:1px solid #000000" cols=52 rows=2></textarea></body></html

If you create a page and type into the box, and make sure that you don't wrap any text, you don't get the problem
The instant you wrap any text, then the problem Michael describes occurs

If you use the same page with IE5.5, this problem does not occur

Seems like an obvious bug in IE6 SP1

I'm experience this bug even now with the input text box I'm entering this reply in!!! (there is text wrap near the top of this message and right here...

Mark G
----- Michael Thorne wrote: ----

When a large amount of text has been placed into a
HTML text area such that the scroll bars become active
I'm seeong the following in IE 6.0.2800.1106 / SP1;
Q824145; Q330994

you can cursor up and down the tex

you can move the slider up and dow

and all works correctl

bu

once you touch the up or down arrow control button
the slider and text go to the bottom and the onl
way to move the text is to cursor with in it


Is this a known problem

Is there a fix or work around


Please reply to (e-mail address removed)

Thanks

mx
 

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