How to make text input box resizable (like textarea) by dragging its right-bottom corner using jQuery?

Question

I would like to have (preferrably in jQuery) regular text input box which can be clicked and dragged by its right-bottom corner (e.g. like textareas have in Chrome) and resized

Answer 1

I made a variation on kay's answer, using the pseudo element ::after instead of a second span. in short:

.resizable-input { ... }
.resizable-input > input { ... }
.resizable-input::after { ... }
/* the last one used to be .resizable-input > span { ... } */

with html just:

See full code and see it in action here: https://jsfiddle.net/ElMoonLite/qh703tbe/

Also added input { padding-right: 0.5em; } so you can still resize it if it's value is full of text.

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Still seems to work in 2019 in Chrome.
In Edge resize does not seem to work (but otherwise looks ok (graceful degradation)). Haven't tested other browsers yet.