How would I start text at the bottom of the div?

April 7, 2022

So I’m working on a project about terminal based "progression", and I wanted to make the effect that terminals present in Linux/MacOS, etc. Right now, the text sticks at the top and gets replaced when the Enter key is pressed. Is there a way to create a new line at the bottom and move the older lines upward? Thanks!

Here is a link to the CodePen Project I am using currently.
https://codepen.io/ZacV/pen/abEYpLz
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function onKeyPressed(e) {
    var keyCode = e.keyCode;
    var key = e.key;
    var currentText;
    if (keyCode == 13){
      currentText = document.getElementById("Input").value;
      textfield.push(currentText);
      $("#Input").val("");
      // document.getElementById("Output").innerHTML = textfield;
      document.getElementById("Output").innerHTML = "Did not understand field: " + textfield[textfield.length-1];
    };
}

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>Solution :

you can use bottom property to align h3 at the bottom of the terminal div

then use

$("#Output").append(currentText + '<br/>');

to append new text entered by user to output

don’t forget to use overflow: hidden;on terminalBody and h3 to hide line that overflow the output size

feather.replace();

document.addEventListener("keydown", onKeyPressed);

var textfield = [];

function onKeyPressed(e) {
  var keyCode = e.keyCode;
  var key = e.key;
  var currentText;
  if (keyCode == 13) {
    currentText = document.getElementById("Input").value;
    textfield.push(currentText);
    $("#Input").val("");
    $("#Output").append(currentText + '<br/>');
  };
}

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  right: 10px;
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  outline-color: var(--green);
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  left: 60px;
  height: auto;
  bottom: 40px;
  font-size: 17px;
  font-size: 17px;
  line-height: 29px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

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