Textarea resize

Question

I need to use a textarea to show some text. The problem is that if I place 4-5 rows of text a scrollbar will appear. How can I use CSS/HTML so that the textarea will be as large

Answer 1

I´m afraid you´ll have to resort to javascript to set the height of your textarea. You can use the scrollHeight property to determine the total height.

Alternatively you could just use a div and style the div to look like a textarea. The div will grow automatically and as it´s a disabled textarea anyway, you don´t really need it to be a textarea.