New v8 Long Text H-CMS/Composer field to have overflow scroll bar option

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Love the new Long Text field in H-CMS and the embedded rich text editor. However, long text in an H-CMS implies that it’s both ‘long’ and of an indeterminate length; therefore, overflow handling is needed (same as a simple text field). Initially, I’d be happy with a ‘Always show the vertical scroll bar’ check box option in Composer, and maybe later a fully functional overflow handler e.g.elipses or cut.

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Hi Matt,

I reported this suggestion to our product team, it will be evaluated and positioned according to other requests within our roadmap.

In the meantime, a solution can be to use an HTML Frame Asset instead of the Rich Text asset to display that long/rich text coming from the HCMS. This enables you to customize the CSS to control the scrollbar behavior.

Disclaimer: We found another issue with this method, which is also reported to our product team. I expect this one to be addressed quicker than the feature improvement request below.
We will keep you posted here when we get any updates on that topic.

Seb

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Thanks Seb.

I’ve used the scroll as an alternative for now. What’s the limitation with iFrame? Depending on the issue I might try that in my next release.

Thanks, Matt