Facebook Style - textArea height:auto

> 2009/11/6 dirk newbold <[hidden email]>:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Does anybody know how to achieve an auto increase of the height of a
>> textArea to fit the input text as the user types, e.g. composing a new
>> mail or adding a comment in Facebook.
>
> IIRC there's a JS trick of writing the contents to an invisible div
> and giving the text area the same dimensions as the div. As usual, ask
> Lukas ;-)
>
> Cheers
> Philippe
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>> Lukas, if you happen to spot this one and have a moment I'd be
>> greatful for any further tips.
>
> A few years ago I implemented something like that for the cmsbox, but
> luckily there are dozens of plugins available today that do exactly
> that. Ask Google for "javascript textarea autosize" and check this
> article on Stack Overflow:
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7477/autosizing-textarea>.
>
> Lukas
>
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> > Lukas, if you happen to spot this one and have a moment I'd be
> > greatful for any further tips.
>
> A few years ago I implemented something like that for the cmsbox, but
> luckily there are dozens of plugins available today that do exactly
> that. Ask Google for "javascript textarea autosize" and check this
> article on Stack Overflow:
> <http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7477/autosizing-textarea>.
>
> Lukas
>