msgbox is too long for screen, anyway to view whats cut off the screen?

[autohotkeycool]

Im using this script but the problem is that I cant view whats written at the bottom, its cuts off on my screen around two thirds the way through the box. I wonder if you can rotate the msgbox 90 degrees or something like that

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URL := "https://attheraces.com/racecard/Catterick/15-December-2020/1455/pacechart" 
    tooltip Downloading page
    page:=download(URL) ; Download page to memory
    tooltip

    document := ComObjCreate("HTMLFile") ; Create an HTML file in memory
    document.write(page)

    elements:=document.getElementsByClassName("card-entry") ; Get elements with class "card-entry"
    loop {
        try ele:=elements[A_Index-1] ; loop through each element
        catch ; Above line gives error when we run out of elements
            break ; Then we break out of loop
        msgbox % ele.innerText ; Display its innerText for example
    }

    return


    ;Ref: https://www.autohotkey.com/docs/commands/URLDownloadToFile.htm#WHR
    Download(url){
        whr := ComObjCreate("WinHttp.WinHttpRequest.5.1")
        whr.Open("GET", url, true)
        whr.Send()
        whr.WaitForResponse()
        return whr.ResponseText
    }

[mikeyww]

When I ran the script, it showed an error at line 25.

Bottom line in any case: if you're trying to show a boatload of text, another approach (e.g., GUI) would be better.

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width := A_ScreenWidth - 350, height := A_ScreenHeight - 350
bunchOfText =
(
this
that
and
the
other
)
Gui, Font, s10
Gui, Add, Edit, w%width% h%height%, %bunchOfText%
Gui, Show,, Text
Send ^{Home}
Return

GuiEscape:
GuiClose:
ExitApp

[JoeWinograd]

Numerous ways to handle this. mikey mentioned one...a GUI. Another way is to write the output to a file instead of using MsgBox to display it. For example, define a file at the top of the script, such as:

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OutputFile:=A_Temp . "\download.txt" ; name it whatever you want and put it wherever you want
FileDelete,%OutputFile% ; reset it for each run

Then change the MsgBox to:

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FileAppend,% ele.innerText "`n",%OutputFile% ; add it to output file

Before the script exits, you can add this command, if you want, to open the results file (in whatever program owns the TXT file type on your system):

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Run,%OutputFile% ; open output file

Regards, Joe