Textarea scroll bar

[Bianca]

Hi everyone,
I have a problem with the scroll bar for text areas, I tried to fix a height but the scroll bar is never displayed, is it a bug or is it wanted that the text areas do not show the scroll bar?

[Karmalakas]

It’s a known issue (among lots of others) and was never fixed

Is it possible to customize the scrollbar

Actually, Textarea on windows does not have any scrollbar at all. So it would be an improvement. Now you can scroll only using keyboards and page up/down or selecting and dragging the text.

[ariestav]

I cannot understand how UXP spectrum textarea has no ability to use scrolling — all of a sudden I feel like I’m back in a 1995 computer lab on my old university campus. Baffling!

[photonic]

It is not only spectrum UXP but the “textarea” HTML element itself which has the issue. I really don’t understand very well how UXP render engine works as it is somehow “based” on HTML but is not HTML?

[ariestav]

HTML:

<textarea></textarea>

CSS:

textarea {
  overflow-y: scroll;
  height: 100px;
  resize: none; /* Remove this if you want the user to resize the textarea */
}

Scrollbars will render if the entry text is over 100px in height.

UXP does not allow this and I simply do not understand why. Scrolling is obviously an important interaction for the utility of <textarea> especially when text-to-whatever prompts are fashionable. UI designers do not want the element to constantly expand.

[lachlanda]

Thanks for your reply on the other thread ariestav. Did you ever end up finding a work around for the scroll bar issue? It was also on my list to implement after resizable text areas.

[tomzag]

The only workaround is probably defining a custom textarea inside Webview.

[ariestav]

@lachlanda I think the workaround that @tomzag proposed is the only workable one. Implementing a “Webview” is not very trivial, but it is doable.