"carlor" wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I have a situation where I have a textbox that by default only displays 2
> rows of text at a time (textbox.rows = 2). On a link button click, I am
> supposed to expand the textbox to show all the data it contains but there are
> a number of problems to work through:
>
> - the text box is in a table and textbox's width is set to 100%
> - a "line" of text could contain a <CR><LF> or could wrap around to the next
> line
> - the font characteristics may change depending on the client's preferences
>
> So, somehow I need to calculate how many rows are required to display all of
> the text without the need for scroll bars and then set the rows property to
> that number.
>
> Does anyone have an idea how to handle this? Has anyone done this before?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Carlo.

"Jerry C" wrote:

> Carlor,
>
> Look at the replys in "auto-size textbox " in this forum Posted 10/19/2006.
>
> also look at these sites
>
> http://www.fmsinc.com/free/NewTips/NET/NETtip45.asp
>
> http://www.thescripts.com/forum/thread382545.html
>
> I hope these are helpfull
>
> Jerry
> --
> Jerry
>
>
> "carlor" wrote:
>
> > Hi there,
> >
> > I have a situation where I have a textbox that by default only displays 2
> > rows of text at a time (textbox.rows = 2). On a link button click, I am
> > supposed to expand the textbox to show all the data it contains but there are
> > a number of problems to work through:
> >
> > - the text box is in a table and textbox's width is set to 100%
> > - a "line" of text could contain a <CR><LF> or could wrap around to the next
> > line
> > - the font characteristics may change depending on the client's preferences
> >
> > So, somehow I need to calculate how many rows are required to display all of
> > the text without the need for scroll bars and then set the rows property to
> > that number.
> >
> > Does anyone have an idea how to handle this? Has anyone done this before?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Carlo.