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[ethercat]

( Sorry I can't edit this tonite. I am struggling with the scrolling thing here.)

Mary, I'm sorry the scrolling thing is causing you problems.  I think you must mean the bottom of the posting window, which adjusts the window's size. 

At the bottom of the posting window (when you make a post) there is a gray bar with two lines that look like this:

This bar allows you to resize the posting window appropriately for the length of your post.  When I make a long post, I lengthen the posting window so I can see my whole post without the posting window's scrollbar appearing.  I do find that if I pull the posting window down too far into the browser window, it seems to get out of control, so I also use the browser's scroll bar to position the bottom of the posting window so this doesn't happen.

I hope these suggestions help (please let me know if they don't) and if this isn't what you mean, please clarify.

[Mary_McConnell]

( Sorry I can't edit this tonite. I am struggling with the scrolling thing here.)

Mary, I'm sorry the scrolling thing is causing you problems.  I think you must mean the bottom of the posting window, which adjusts the window's size. 

At the bottom of the posting window (when you make a post) there is a gray bar with two lines that look like this:

This bar allows you to resize the posting window appropriately for the length of your post.  When I make a long post, I lengthen the posting window so I can see my whole post without the posting window's scrollbar appearing.  I do find that if I pull the posting window down too far into the browser window, it seems to get out of control, so I also use the browser's scroll bar to position the bottom of the posting window so this doesn't happen.

I hope these suggestions help (please let me know if they don't) and if this isn't what you mean, please clarify.

Ok, I got it to work, thanks!

[ethercat]

You're welcome!

[ethercat]

I found out more about this issue.  If your problem is the same as described below (from another forum), it is an IE8 bug that can sometimes be "fixed" by clicking on the torn paper icon to the right of the address bar, which will turn on "compatibility mode" (emulate IE7).  Here are the descriptions from the other forum:

... if I type a long enough post (roughly 2-3 lines past where the text box normally ends), the text box begins to act up on me.  If I type anything beyond that point, the viewed part of the text seems to "hop" up a few lines from where I am typing and I can only briefly see the line I am typing, at the very bottom of the box, for the few milliseconds during which time I press the letter key(s).  This is very annoying when writing a post, editing a post, and selecting text in the box to cut or copy.

When typing new messages that are longer than the number of lines in the input box (that's when the scroll bar appears) the cursor and text nervously start to jump up and down.

The issue is when entering test in this window. Like posting a new reply. When I get up to about 20 lines of text or so, the scroll window starts to jump to the bottom line and then back to the top with EVERY character I type. Again... this works fine up to a certain point and then the window jumping starts. So I don't know if it has to do with a certain number of lines, or a certain number of characters. I can keep inputting text, but window jumping back and forth makes it almost impossible to keep inputting text at a certain point.

Use compatibility mode, or switch browsers.  Adjusting the posting window's size as described above will also help.

[alias]

A coding change has been made that should fix this problem for IE8 users. 

If any of you experience this issue from here on out, please let me know.