Read-Only text area

Hi,
I'm using a text area to display a longer read-only text. It should display only 5 lines and, if the text is longer, it should be scrollable. Works fine as long as I set the attribute Editable to true. But if I set it to No (because it should be read-only), I get the following problems:
- It does not show only the 5 lines anymore, but the complete text without scrollbars.
- It shrinks the size of the text area, so that it fits the text inside. You can see that looking at the borders. But I wanted to have the borders at the original size independent of the text.
Does anyone knows, how to solve that?
Thanks&Regards
Matthias

to the best of my knowledge, if you make it read-only you cannot have the scroll bar enabled. and whatever you explained is the expected behaviour!!
But, i have a workaround under three conditions:
1. if you need the scroll bar
2. if you want the size of it as in the initial state - without disturbing the existing size and format of page
3. you wish to retain the value
keep the value of the text area in a temporary object and pass it to the reference attribute on submit of page. (here we are just retaining the value and not making it read-only)
this helps in keeping the format of page undisturbed!!
HTH
Sharma

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