# How to scroll a long form

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-scroll-a-long-form/268236>\
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**Created:** [August 11, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-scroll-a-long-form/268236 "2008-08-11T18:36:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jerr9](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/258eb7/32.png) [@Jerr9](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Jerr9)\
**Post date:** [August 11, 2008, 6:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-scroll-a-long-form/268236/1 "2008-08-11T18:36:56Z")

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I have a long web form (a survey for local charity) that I want to do all in Flash.

I can use HTML scroll bars, but SWFs are limited to a height of 2880 px so that’s insufficient.

So I am trying to use a ScrollPane - which results in a problem.

As a test, if I use a tall jpg, that scrolls okay. If I use a simple tall mc, that works okay, too. But when I use as the

scrollPane.source = mySprite

(which contains my form with nested checkboxes and textfields, etc), then the scrollPane doesn’t work. The top of the mySprite shows inside the scrollPane, but no scrollbars. If I force the appearance of scrollbars with

verticalScrollPolicy = ScrollPolicy.ON

then the scrollbars are grayed out.

Further, if I set mySprite.height = someHeight, then the mySprite does not show at all in the scrollPane. So that’s weird, and makes me suspect that ScrollPane class is buggy.

How do I get this to work? Thanks.