Stylesheets - resizable textarea?

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resizable textarea?

ivowel@gmail.com

2007-10-13, 6:16 pm

dear experts: is it possible to define in plain html (perhaps with
css) a textarea in a form that expands over the entire width of a
browser window? sincerely, /iaw

Chris F.A. Johnson

2007-10-13, 6:16 pm

On 2007-10-13, ivowel@XXXXXXXXXX wrote:
>
> dear experts: is it possible to define in plain html (perhaps with
> css) a textarea in a form that expands over the entire width of a
> browser window?

Use CSS:

textarea {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}

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Jukka K. Korpela

2007-10-14, 6:17 pm

Scripsit Chris F.A. Johnson:

>
> Use CSS:
>
> textarea {
> width: 100%;
> height: 100%;
> }

There was no request for filling the entire _height_ (which would have been
rather absurd). So

textarea { width: 100%; }

is the answer - except that there will still be page margins, so that the
area does not quite expand over the entire width. To make the margins
disappear (with the usual caveats) you would use

html, body { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

but then you would need to add any margins that you really want to have.

Expanding over the width of a window is seldom a good idea, though.
Expanding over the body width is better, and you get that with just textarea
{ width: 100%; }.

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