Oct 9, 2010 · On a web page this can result in scroll bars appearing on the text area if the text length overfills the space you set (be that using rows, or be that using CSS. That can be a problem when a user decides to print, particularly with 'printing' to PDF - so set a comfortably large min-height for printed textareas with a conditional CSS rule:

May 13, 2010 · Just wanted to emphasize what Josh already said, that you should be using keyup, not keydown for this: keydown seems to be called before the change is actually made to the textarea, so you'll be using the wrong length (and you don't really know how off you are: could be typing or deleting, and could have text selected meaning it's more than just +/- 1).

Mar 28, 2017 · You can see an example of the same situation even in a more simple case, just putting a text area inside a div (like what is used here in www.stackoverflow.com) You can see from the images below that the textarea can stretch beyond the size of its parent?

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Jan 6, 2009 · I am attempting to set a value in a textarea field using jquery with the following code: $("textarea#ExampleMessage").attr("value", result.exampleMessage); The issue is, once this code executes, ...

Jan 9, 2010 · If you use large values for the paddings (e.g. greater than 0.5em), you'll start to see the text that overflows the content(-box) area, and that might lead you to think that the height is not exactly x rows (that you set), but it is. To understand what's going on, you might want to check out The box model and box-sizing pages.

Just wanted to add that I was having an issue where removing lines of text wouldn't decrease the height enough (2px at a time, possibly related to using bootstrap). I fixed this by setting element[0].style.height in the resize function to 1px first, then setting it to the scrollHeight.

Oct 11, 2012 · Styling certain text in textarea Hot Network Questions Where is the vertical space below and above floats ultimately defined in the LaTeX (or TeX) source code, and how can we change it the clean way?

May 15, 2011 · placeholder='' inserts your text, but it is greyed out (in a tool-tip style format) and the moment the field is clicked, your text is replaced by an empty text field. value='' is not a <textarea> attribute, and only works for <input> tags, ie, <input type='text'>, etc. I don't know why the creators of HTML5 decided not to incorporate that, but ...

Jul 10, 2011 · @StanE - I used your suggestion on the tab character and now the single tab character occupies a width of approx 6 space characters, which is what I wanted - when you use cursor keys to navigate through the text, the caret now jumps that tab distance on …