# TextArea and ScrollBar issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-scrollbar-issue/36567>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [November 28, 2003, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-scrollbar-issue/36567 "2003-11-28T09:33:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![waztone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/cdc98d/32.png) [@waztone](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waztone)\
**Post date:** [November 28, 2003, 9:33am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-and-scrollbar-issue/36567/1 "2003-11-28T09:33:12Z")

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Hi there fellow Kirupians!

I’ve been working on a little something that loads external HTML files via XML into a TextArea and it works great. I’ve been able to delete the background of the TextArea with TextArea.background = false; But now I want the borders to dissapear too. Any ideas?

I’m using the TextArea component because if I make a normal textarea with the texttool, it won’t show a scrollbar if the text is too big. Does anyone know why? I can’t seem to customize the scrollbar of the TextArea component 'cause it doesn’t show up in the library. I do know how to customize a regular scrollbar component, but is it possible to only let it show if the text in the textarea it refers to is to large?

PS: I’m using Flash MX 2004 Professional