I've tried all sorts of changes to div.scrollTop etc but nothing is working?

Any ideas?

In sp shoutbox_getmessages:

Replace ORDER BY Date DESC for ORDER BY Date

Save it and launch update.

Thanks for the prompt reply but as I said in my original post I've manage to do the stored procedure no problem.

My issue is with the div box scroll behaviour. Everytime you make a post the scroll bar defaults to the top. Obviously the new messages are now at the bottom :wink: so you don't see them.

I need a way for the scroll bar to be positioned at the bottom after a post.

I've seen many solutions on the net that supposedly not only handle Ajax but also Repeater objects that the Shoutbox use, such as setting the div elements scrollTop property to 0, but none seem to work!

What am I missing about the shoutbox that could be stopping this?

I've have noticed that onload it runs a JS scroll behavior method which I thought might be overriding it but I've remmed that out and it made no difference.

I've had at least 15 people on my board ask for this change as they use it like a chatroom and its scroll the opposite way to how they (and I) expect. :cheesy:

Thanks

Really, I don't have time now to investigate the complex problem.

If you come up with some solution, please let us know:)

HTH

ShoutBox Reversed Scroll

1. Reverse the message list.

In Install/mssql/procedures.sql

Modify line 6992 - Removing the DESC

ORDER BY Date 

2. Set the ID of the ShoutBox

<div id="divShoutBox" class="post" style="overflow-y:scroll;
 height: 150px; width: 100%; padding: 0; margin: 0">
       <asp:UpdatePanel ID="shoutBoxChatUpdatePanel" UpdateMode="conditional" runat="server">
	<Triggers>

    public static string DisablePageManagerScrollJs
    {
      get
      {
        return
          @"
	var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();

	prm.add_beginRequest(beginRequest);

        prm.add_endRequest(endRequest); //ADDED
    
    function beginRequest() {
		prm._scrollPosition = null;
}
    //ADDED
    function endRequest(){
    
    var div = document.getElementById('divShoutBox');
    
    if(div)
	div.scrollTop = 10000
	}//END ADD
";
      }
    }

<script type="text/javascript">

    var prm = Sys.WebForms.PageRequestManager.getInstance();

    prm.add_endRequest(endRequest);

    function endRequest() {
        var div = document.getElementById('divShoutBox');
        if (div)
            div.scrollTop = 10000
    }
</script>

<div id="divShoutBox" onmouseover="stopTimer()" onmouseout="startTimer()"  
class="post" style="overflow-y:scroll; height: 150px; width: 100%; padding: 0;margin: 0">
<asp:UpdatePanel ID="shoutBoxChatUpdatePanel" UpdateMode="conditional" runat="server">
<Triggers>