# Smooth scrolling on dynamically loaded textfield?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-scrolling-on-dynamically-loaded-textfield/169686
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [November 18, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-scrolling-on-dynamically-loaded-textfield/169686 "2005-11-18T11:38:39Z")
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### Author: ![3stripe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/48db29/32.png) [@3stripe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/3stripe)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2005, 11:38am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/smooth-scrolling-on-dynamically-loaded-textfield/169686/1 "2005-11-18T11:38:39Z")

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I’ve got a textfield with externally loaded text, that I’m scrolling using the usual scroll++ method, and invisible buttons… ([http://www.thirdeyedesign.co.uk/beta/test\_news.html](http://www.thirdeyedesign.co.uk/beta/test_news.html))

Is it possible to add a smooth friction effect to this, like on Claudio’s scroller at [http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27214](http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=27214)

I’m thinking it might not be possible, as this would require you to know the height of the text area, which is hard when using dynamically loaded text…

Is there a clever way to do this though???

Thanx

James