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

You don't need jQuery to handle this. What you need is css.

#yourTextInput{
resize:both;
}

This will allow your text input to have the resize option on the right

Answer 2

Have you looked at the jQuery UI resizable widget?

Here is the source code for just the resizable example.

Answer 3

Anno 2016 it is a bit more complicated. You need to wrap the <input> in an "inline-block" that you made resizable:

.resizable-input {
    /* make resizable */
    overflow-x: hidden;
    resize: horizontal;
    display: inline-block;

    /* no extra spaces */
    padding: 0;
    margin: 0;
    white-space: nowrap;
  
    /* default widths */
    width: 10em;
    min-width: 2em;
    max-width: 30em;
}

/* let <input> assume the size of the wrapper */
.resizable-input > input {
    width: 100%;
    box-sizing: border-box;
    margin: 0;
}

/* add a visible handle */
.resizable-input > span {
    display: inline-block;
    vertical-align: bottom;
    margin-left: -16px;
    width: 16px;
    height: 16px;
    background-image: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAQCAQAAAC1+jfqAAAAJUlEQVR4AcXJRwEAIBAAIPuXxgiOW3xZYzi1Q3Nqh+bUDk1yD9sQaUG/4ehuEAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==");
    cursor: ew-resize;
}

<span class="resizable-input"><input type="text" /><span></span></span>

Answer 4

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:

<span class="resizeable-input"><input type="text"/></span>

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.