Have you ever used
textarea in your UI design to get text from user? (Ofcourse you must) :) You must have specified
rows and
cols attribute to define the
height and
width of the textarea, or by using CSS. By whatever mean you create your textarea, the width and height of the textarea is fixed. What if you want your user to change the width and height of the textarea or
resize the
textarea while she is entering the text?
You can simply do this by using following JavaScript. Actually this is a jQuery plugin that lets you resize the textarea at runtime.
Let us assume that following is your HTML code:
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery textarea resizer plugin</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.textarearesizer.compressed.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {
$('textarea.resizable:not(.processed)').TextAreaResizer();
});
</script>
<style type="text/css">
div.grippie {
background:#EEEEEE url(grippie.png) no-repeat scroll center 2px;
border-color:#DDDDDD;
border-style:solid;
border-width:0pt 1px 1px;
cursor:s-resize;
height:9px;
overflow:hidden;
}
.resizable-textarea textarea {
display:block;
margin-bottom:0pt;
width:50%;
height: 30%;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>jQuery TextAreaResizer plugin example</h1>
<h2>Simple textarea + Resizer bar (grippie)</h2>
<textarea rows="5" class="resizable">some test text
some test text
some test text
some test text
some test text
some test text
</textarea>
</body>
</html>
Code language: HTML, XML (xml)
In the above code the textarea is made re-sizable by using jQuery plugin. All you have to do is to include jquery.textarearesizer.js in your HTML document where you have the textarea and call
.TextAreaResizer(); method.
$('textarea.resizable:not(.processed)').TextAreaResizer();
Code language: JavaScript (javascript)
Notice that we have passed class name .resizable in the jquery call $() and then called TextAreaResizer() method.
Demo
Click here to view online demo.
Download
Click here to download textarearesizer plugin.
Have you ever used textarea in your UI design to get text from user? (Ofcourse you must) :) You must have specified rows and cols attribute to define the height and width of the textarea, or by using CSS. By whatever mean you create your textarea, the width and height of the textarea is fixed. What if you want your user to change the width and height of the textarea or resize the textarea while she is entering the text?
You can simply do this by using following JavaScript. Actually this is a jQuery plugin that lets you resize the textarea at runtime.
Let us assume that following is your HTML code:
Great!, usefull. Thanks!
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Hi there,
I’ll give it a try, sounds very useful :)
Thanks a lot for this jquery plugin.
thank you… working good…
How to block stretch under ff.4x?
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_mg7ZLoSThok/TB4yIBop31I/AAAAAAAAADQ/xIXtdpYzzI4/s320/resizer_is_displayed_at_div_element.png
Is there any option to have grippie on the right side for horizontal resizing?
Thanks, work great! :)
thank you… working good…good job :)
Hello Viral Patel, thank you for your work. Ist works great with my own WordPress Themes. I have placed the CSS as a separate file, and specified in the header.
nice plugin thanks a lot