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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 as it's content (no scrollbar).
the textarea doesn't need to change it's size dynamicaly, I use it only to show a text (I could also use a disabled textarea)
I want the textarea to stretch only verticaly.
If you want to know:
I use the textarea to show some text from a database, so when the textarea (with the text in it) is created, it should show the whole text at once with no scrollbars.
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Alright, I just found this and it works very nicely:
<html>
<head>
<script>
function textAreaAdjust(o) {
o.style.height = "1px";
o.style.height = (25+o.scrollHeight)+"px";
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea onkeyup="textAreaAdjust(this)" style="overflow:hidden"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Now, I shouldn't assume that you know Javascript (but you might).
Just run
textAreaAdjust(document.getElementById("id of your text area"))
Something like that should work. I'm not the best with Javascript (not even close, I just started using it the other day)
That seems to do something similar to what you want. The first code example is for a textarea that dynamically changes based on what is in it (while typing). It will take a couple of changes to get it how you want.
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