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Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

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Posted on by Community Member Microsoft Employee

Hi all,

Sometimes there will be wide table inside the content of an email(below picture),

I am wondering if a horizontal scrolling bar can be added to the textarea in email form?

Thank you very much.

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Mahadeo Matre 17,021 on at

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

Hi Doll,

As Deepesh already mentioned, you cannot do by supported way unless you are putting HTML web resource..

If you want to add scroll bar by unsupported way.. then try this code

function AddScrollBar() { Xrm.Page.getControl('new_description').setFocus(); var desc=document.getElementById('new_description_i'); desc.style.overflowX="Scroll"; }

Call this function on load of your form. and change new_description with your attribute.

In CRM 2013 mainly if you try to Do form DOM manipulation on form load, its not very easy. CRM form controls are mostly loaded when we are doing focus on control then only you can add custom style..

Hope this will help.

Thanks,
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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

I felt really sorry

Even I read the articles, I have totally no idea on how to add a scrollbar to description field.

Xrm.Page.getAttribute('description').[what should be following here?]

Xrm.Page.getAttribute('description').style.overflowX="Scroll"

This is absolutely wrong>.<
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Deepesh161 6,317 on at

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

msdn.microsoft.com/.../jj602964.aspx
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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

Thank you for your quick answer,

Can you show some example of using xrm namespace for the description field?

As my reply on 22 January, I tried to do it, but if was not success

Regards,
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Deepesh161 6,317 on at

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

The resolution is as I already suggested in previous comments.

IF you want to have text area with scroll bar make a html webresouce like that, embed it on form.

Second, use Xrm scripting to save it to description field.

Even if you use unsupported DOM manipulation, it does not add scroll bars on the field.
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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

The problem not yet solve, can somebody give me some hints please??
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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

Hi Mithilesh,

Appreciate for your suggestion, but I don't need such function for the description, a simply horizontal scrollbar will fulfill my need :)
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Mithilesh Kumar 10,045 on at

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

Hi Doll,

You can refer this for your Text Editor.

community.dynamics.com/.../create-a-rich-text-textarea-in-microsoft-crm-2013-forms.aspx

Hope that helps

Thanks

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

Hi Deepesh,

Would you mind elaborate a little bit more?
I am very new to CRM coding,

Xrm.Page.getAttribute('description') or Xrm.Page.getControl('description')

and how to set the style overflow?

It seems that [ Xrm.Page.getAttribute('description').style.overflowX="scroll"; ], is not a correct behavior.

It will be graceful if sample can be provided~

Thanks!!
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Deepesh161 6,317 on at

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RE: Horizontal scrolling bar for textarea

I will rather suggest you to use a html webresource with jquery rich text editor and then internally save to CRM via Xrm namespace.

Whatever script we apply here can easily break in future. HTML webresource will be useful until any methods are not deprecated.