# How to make text in spans\_manual interface scrollable?

**URL:** <https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-text-in-spans-manual-interface-scrollable/5979>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Tags:** spancat\
**Created:** [September 26, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-text-in-spans-manual-interface-scrollable/5979 "2022-09-26T19:25:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Solo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Solo](https://support.prodi.gy/u/Solo)\
**Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 7:25pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-text-in-spans-manual-interface-scrollable/5979/1 "2022-09-26T19:25:30Z")

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How can I make the text in a spans\_manual interface fixed height and scrollable? In the config of my custom recipe, I tried both

```python
"global_css": ".prodigy-root[data-prodigy-view-id='spans_manual'] .prodigy-content { overflow: auto; height: 400px}"

```

and

```python
"global_css": ".prodigy-spans { overflow: auto; height: 400px}"

```

, but neither of them worked.

This one

```python
"global_css": ".prodigy-content { overflow: auto; height: 400px}"

```

**does** work (i.e. making the text in spans\_manual scrollable), but it also made every other interface the same height too (which is undesired). How can I make just the spans\_manual scrollable?

FYI, the spans\_manual interface is among many others in a block:

```python
blocks = [
        {"view_id": "text", "text": "some text here"},
        {"view_id": "html"},
        {"view_id": "text_input", "field_id": "text_input_1", "field_rows": 3, "field_label": "summary", "field_placeholder": "write a summary"}, 
        {"view_id": "spans_manual"}, 
    ]

```

Thank you!

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**Author:** ![koaning](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/support.prodi.gy/koaning/32/230_2.png) [@koaning](https://support.prodi.gy/u/koaning)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://support.prodi.gy/t/how-to-make-text-in-spans-manual-interface-scrollable/5979/2 "2022-09-28T12:30:19Z")

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I believe this is a duplicate of a follow-up [here](https://support.prodi.gy/t/is-it-possbile-to-freeze-the-text-input-interface-while-scrolling-through-the-text-data/5948/3).