Question

I have a textbox as follows:

    <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server" Width="100px" Rows="3" ReadOnly="true"
 BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="0" TextMode="MultiLine" Text='<%# Eval("Notes") %>'
 BackColor="#222222" ForeColor="White"></asp:TextBox>

How can I make it so that the vertical scrollbar is not displayed when the textbox is either empty or it doesn’t need to scroll because the text fits in the 3 lines?

Answer 1

You can do this with CSS by specifying overflow:auto;. You can manually add this attribute to the CssStyleCollection at TextBox1.Style in your page’s code-behind, or you can apply a CssClass value declaratively and define the css class in an external stylesheet.

Here is some documentation on CSS overflow : http://www.quirksmode.org/css/overflow.html

Here is some documentation on the TextBox.Style property: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.webcontrol.style