You should wrap your long text
in a div and give overflow
to that div
HTML
<div class="Content">
<div class="text">blah... ..blah</div>
<div id="handle" class = "ui-resizable-handle ui-resizable-s"></div>
</div>
CSS
.Content
{
background:#fff;
height:224px;
}
.text
{
position : relative;
height:100%;
overflow:auto;
background:#fff;
}