# TextArea Scrolling inversed!

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-scrolling-inversed/240190>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [September 30, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-scrolling-inversed/240190 "2007-09-30T18:09:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![AJSimpson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/df788c/32.png) [@AJSimpson](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/AJSimpson)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/textarea-scrolling-inversed/240190/1 "2007-09-30T18:09:46Z")

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Hey guys,

I want to make a mouse wheel scrollable textarea, but **without** the ability to select the text.

So I’m having a dynamic text box, and this code:

```auto

mouseListener = new Object();

mouseListener.onMouseWheel = function (delta) {
    _root.index_page.container.latest_news.scroll += delta;
}

Mouse.addListener(mouseListener);

```

The problem is, that if you scroll **DOWN** , on the mousewheel, the text goes **DOWN** too. (the text should go up, normally)…

\_root.index\_page.container.latest\_news.scroll **-** = delta; \<- doesn’t help…

What should I do?..

Thanks.