restricting text fill on a text area

Here is what I want to do, but I have no idea if it is possible: I want to set up a sized div on my page and be able to fill it with text from a text file. Easy enough, but I want to be able to 'sense' when the text area fills, no matter what size text the browser has set. I don't really want to use the scroll bars as they don't render well, IMO. What I would prefer to do is to have the text fill the area in question and then throw up a next page button, or something of the like. I can see that I would have to parse out the text word by word, wait for the overflow and then have that position be the beginning of the next page. Can anyone see how/whether this would be possible? -- Ian Truelsen Email: ian@ihtruelsen.dyndns.org AIM: ihtruelsen Homepage: http://www.ihtruelsen.dyndns.org