I have a Textarea where users can input text. By default it has a height of 17px. However if users insert a large amount of text, I want the text area to expand accordingly. Is there a way to do this with CSS ? Thanks in advance!!
This cannot be done with CSS alone. try the autogrow jquery plugin.
https://github.com/jaz303/jquery-grab-bag/blob/master/javascripts/jquery.autogrow-textarea.js
You can also see autogrow demo here http://onehackoranother.com/projects/jquery/jquery-grab-bag/autogrow-textarea.html
It's lightweight and easy to use. Here's how it's done. Define your textarea id. Include the jquery js file before </body>. Then between script tags, issue the jquery command $(#txtInput).autoGrow();
<body>
<textarea id=txtInput></textarea>
<script src=http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js type=text/javascript></script>
<script>
$(#txtInput).autogrow();
</script>
</body>
