Chat-like textbox that scrolls to bottom as text is added?

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I’m creating a chat and need to tell a textbox to scroll to the bottom as I programmatically add text in it. The idea is the something like:

$w(“#myTextbox”).text += “\n” + someText;
$w(“#myTextbox”).scrollTo(0, 10000);

Obviously, scrollTo() doesn’t work for textboxes. How do I do it?

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Hello. Can you do this in an HTML embed? That way you can use a element which you can use scrollTop or scrollTo on.

https://support.wix.com/en/article/velo-working-with-the-html-iframe-element

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Thank you so much! It worked, although text areas have great limitations: no HTML markup, they’re measured in rows and columns instead of pixels and the result on mobile devices isn’t the greatest. But thanks anyway, at least it scrolls! :wink:

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Agreed on the limitations so it greatly depends on your use case. Glad it worked and hopefully you have been able to iterate from there as needed!