Please point in the right direction regarding comment text in a blog

[lordvader]

Sometimes a blog post's comment will be too long. I want to enforce a maximum character limit, and if the comment exceeds this then it is presented with a slider so you can still read the whole comment, but the comment won't take up too much space. You know, like how your browser deals with long webpages.

 

I don't think iframes are suitable here, so how could I do this? I don't need specifics, just the general concept and proper buzzwords. I can look it up myself.

Thanks

 

On re-reading this, I realize this is not necessarily a php question (although my site is written in php). Sorry about that.

[.josh]

Are you wanting like a textarea with a set height like so?

 

<textarea height = '2' width = '20'>
asdflkjsafd
asdflkjsdflkj
asdflkjsfdl
sdflkjsadflkj
</textarea>

[lordvader]

That's really close - however the formatting shows up along with the text - stuff like line breaks, new paragraph symbol, etc. Is there a way to do this while allowing the html to render?

 

Thanks