{"id":357,"date":"2024-01-05T19:27:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:27:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=357"},"modified":"2024-01-05T19:28:28","modified_gmt":"2024-01-05T19:28:28","slug":"auto-sizing-textarea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/auto-sizing-textarea\/","title":{"rendered":"Auto-Sizing Textarea"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Credit to Stephen Shaw for the original idea, there is a decently easy way to make an auto-sizing <textarea><\/code> element. It is here.<\/a> But it’s not perfect. There is a frustrating hard-to-replicate iOS bug<\/a>. Plus it’s just a trick. It requires JavaScript and some pretty specific CSS to pull off. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s awesome to see the web platform pick up<\/a> an easy one-liner way to do this, by way of a new CSS property:<\/p>\n\n\n

textarea<\/span> {\n  field-sizing<\/span>: content;\n}<\/code><\/span>Code language:<\/span> CSS<\/span> (<\/span>css<\/span>)<\/span><\/small><\/pre>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
At one time when this was being played with, the CSS property was called form-sizing<\/code>, but I think I like the update to field-sizing<\/code>. I think of these things as “fields”, and quite notably it works on <input><\/code> as well as <textarea><\/code>. Fork Adam’s demo and have it apply to an input instead to see it work (in Chrome Canary). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Credit to Stephen Shaw for the original idea, there is a decently easy way to make an auto-sizing <textarea> element. It is here. But it’s not perfect. There is a frustrating hard-to-replicate iOS bug. Plus it’s just a trick. It requires JavaScript and some pretty specific CSS to pull off. It’s awesome to see the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":359,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[7,59,31],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-css","tag-forms","tag-html"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/auto-grow-textarea-thumb.jpg?fit=1000%2C500&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":361,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/361"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Adam Argyle has a simple demo here<\/a> to play with (note how the field-sizing<\/code> can apply to inline<\/code> size as well as block<\/code> size<\/em>). As I write, Chrome Canary has it in v122, and should go out in stable in late February. Let’s \ud83d\ude4f for quick cross-browser support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n