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Adjusting the height of multi line text field in dynamic sub forms

webdev
Registered: Jul 2 2007
Posts: 2

Hi!

I am just wondering how to handle the height of multi line text fields in the sub forms which have flow layouts.

Here is the scenario. I have two subforms - subform1 followed by subform 2 on the page, both have the flow layout. A text field 1 and 2 with the multi line properties enabled are embeded in subform 1 and 2 respectively.

The problem I am having here is when the height of text field grows due to the multiple lines in text field 1, subform1 doesn't know the height of the textfield. Thus it does not flow the contents of the text field 1 and let the contents of text field 1 to overflow onto the text field 2 of subform 2.

I can probably write a java script to calculate the height of the text field 1 when the height changes and change the height of subform 1 accordingly. But I don't want to do it that way. There should be some way or properties we could set in designer to handle this situation.

Any lights on that would be much appreciated.

lkassuba
ExpertTeam
Registered: Jun 28 2007
Posts: 3636
There are some suggestions on how to do this in the following post:
http://www.acrobatusers.com/forums/aucbb/viewtopic.php?id=6965

Lori Kassuba is an AUC Expert and Community Manager for AcrobatUsers.com.