Textarea with Read Only Condition Type

Question

A have a textarea (database field with Varchar2(4000) with the Read Only Condition Type set to Request != Expression 1. Works fine, except that data presented as a long 1 line text (like a Displayed text) when condition meet (no vertical scrollbar).
Am i missing some additional settings.

Answer 1

the easiest way to get the read-only version of your textarea item to appear more like your read/write version is to add some style specifications into the "Read Only Element Table Cell(s) Attributes" field that's right below where you specified your read-only conditions ("Expression 1" and "Expresssion 2"). as the name suggests, values entered into that field end up in the table data tag for the cell in which your read-only content is placed. added style specifications for height and width would help you control how the text is spread across your page. you can/should also consider using background and color style attributes to color the table cell the way we're used to seeing read-only data ("grayed out"). so though my colors are way off, a string like this...
style="width:16px;height:30px;background:#C5D5C5;color:666666;font-weight:bold;font-size:12pt"
...in that "Read Only Element Table Cell(s) Attributes" field would format your read-only data closer to what you're going for. at the least, it'd give you an idea for the type of control you have.
for extremists, there's also another approach: if you want absolute and total control over the way your textarea item's data is displayed, you could display your item's data in an HTML region instead of as the item directly. for instance, you mentioned you liked that scroll bar. you could achieve the scroll bar by defining your table, the scroll bar class, and table cell in an HTML region. say we saved your textarea item's data to a hidden item called P1_MY_TEXTAREAS_DATA. i'm pretty sure this html would let you show that data in that scrollable non-updatable format you're shootin' for...
<style type="text/css">
.scrollarea{
font-size: 10pt;height:250px;width:100%;text-align:left;
background-color:#ffffff;color:black;padding:0px 0px 0px 0px;margin:0px;overflow: auto;
float:left;}
</style>
<div class="scrollarea">
<table summary="" width="100%"><tr>
<td style="width:16px;height:300px;border:4px;margin-left:4px;margin-right:9px">
&P1_MY_TEXTAREAS_DATA
</td></tr></table><div>
...see? by defining your own table, you get the easy opportunity to wrap it in those div tags that call the scrollarea class. also note that i just referenced the content of your textarea item with that ampersand syntax (&P1_MY_TEXTAREAS_DATA). you could, of course, keep things cleaner by defining your scrollarea class in a css, but that's your call.
hope this helps,
raj