automatically scroll to bottom of textarea

[jason]

Hello.

I've written this web application in asp.net and have a textarea what
I will use like a chat box. The box will be frequently refreshing. I
need the textarea to *automatically* scroll to the bottom or start at
the bottom displaying the last message sent. I am being told there is
no way to do this in asp.net and that I will have to do it in
javascript. Does anybody have any sample code on how to do this?

Many thanks for any help or information.

[johkar]

Credit for this goes to Yep from a response in July. IE.

John

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</textarea>
<script type="text/javascript">
function f(ta_id){
var d=document, ta, rng;
if(d.all){
ta=d.all[ta_id];
if(ta && ta.createTextRange){
rng=ta.createTextRange();
rng.collapse(false);
rng.select();
}
}
}
f('textfield');
</script>

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Hello.

I've written this web application in asp.net and have a textarea what
I will use like a chat box. The box will be frequently refreshing. I
need the textarea to *automatically* scroll to the bottom or start at
the bottom displaying the last message sent. I am being told there is
no way to do this in asp.net and that I will have to do it in
javascript. Does anybody have any sample code on how to do this?

Many thanks for any help or information.