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Azriel Omega
Azriel Omega

Reputation: 949

Can I style the resize grabber of textarea?

My designer just gave me the design with text areas with styled resize grabber. The question is: Can I style it or not ?

Upvotes: 83

Views: 73783

Answers (7)

zyrup
zyrup

Reputation: 717

I managed to do so this way:

.textarea-container:before {
    content: '';
    background-image: url('svg/textarea-resize.svg');
    background-size: 16px;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    position: absolute;
    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    bottom: 2px;
    right: 0;
    pointer-events: none;
}

Upvotes: 2

saelozahra
saelozahra

Reputation: 123

textarea {
  resize: none;
}
<textarea cols="72" rows="14"></textarea>

Upvotes: -4

Aadesh Kulkarni
Aadesh Kulkarni

Reputation: 569

Styling the resize grabber of textarea using @HorusKol's approach

Codepen url 

textarea {
    /* Ignore this part of code - basic textarea formatting */
    margin-top: 20px;
    margin-left: 20px;
    width:300px;
    padding:20px;
    border:1px solid #CCC;
    border-radius: 4px;
    /* Comment below line to resize horizontal + vertical */
    resize:vertical 
    /* Step 1 */
    position: relative;
}
    /* Step 2 */
.wrap {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}
    /* Step 3 - - Sets the 1st line of resize icon */
.wrap:after {
    content:"";
    border-top: 2px solid #555;
    width:16px;
    transform: rotate(-45deg);
    background:transparent;
    position: absolute;
    right: 1px;
    bottom: 14px;
    pointer-events: none;
    border-radius:25%;
}
    /* Step 4 - Sets the 2nd line of resize icon */
.pull-tab {
    border-top: 2px solid #555;
    width:10px;
    transform: rotate(-45deg);
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 10px;
    right: 1px;
    pointer-events: none;
    border-radius:25%;
}
    /* Step 5 - Removes the default resizer grabber icon */
::-webkit-resizer{
  display:none;
}
<div class="wrap">
    <div class="pull-tab"></div>
    <textarea placeholder="Customized resizer grabber...">
    </textarea>
</div>

Upvotes: 4

Rich
Rich

Reputation: 805

textarea::-webkit-resizer {
  border-width: 8px;
  border-style: solid;
  border-color: transparent orangered orangered transparent;
}
<textarea/>

Upvotes: 16

csandreas1
csandreas1

Reputation: 2388

Why not just show a background image? http://jsfiddle.net/1n0d529p/ 

textarea {
  background: url(https://image.flaticon.com/icons/svg/133/133889.svg)no-repeat rgba(71, 108, 193, 0.52) 99.9% 100%;
  background-size: 12px;
}

Upvotes: 3

HorusKol
HorusKol

Reputation: 8706

Instead of applying CSS to ::-webkit-resizer (which doesn't appear to be working in Chrome 56 or FireFox 51), you can create a "custom" handle using some markup. I found this example after a google search:

Custom CSS3 TextArea Resize Handle

Copied markup in case of future dead link:

<div class="wrap">
  <div class="pull-tab"></div>
  <textarea placeholder="drag the cyan triangle..."></textarea>
</div>

And the CSS from the example - of course, you can apply any style you like :

textarea {
    position: relative;
    margin: 20px 0 0 20px;
    z-index: 1;
}
.wrap {
    position: relative;
    display: inline-block;
}
.wrap:after {
    content:"";
    border-top: 20px solid black;
    border-left: 20px solid transparent;
    border-right: 20px solid transparent;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
    z-index: 1;
    opacity: 0.5;
    position: absolute;
    right: -18px;
    bottom: -3px;
    pointer-events: none;
}
.pull-tab {
    height: 0px;
    width: 0px;
    border-top: 20px solid cyan;
    border-left: 20px solid transparent;
    border-right: 20px solid transparent;
    -webkit-transform: rotate(-45deg);
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0px;
    right: -15px;
    pointer-events: none;
    z-index: 2;
}

Upvotes: 27

Anselm
Anselm

Reputation: 7908

WebKit provides the pseudo-element ::-webkit-resizer for the resize control it automatically adds to the bottom right of textarea elements.

It can be hidden by applying display: none or -webkit-appearance: none:

::-webkit-resizer {
  display: none;
}
<textarea></textarea>

This displays as follows in Chrome 26 on OS X:

This displays as follows in Chrome 26 on OS X:

Note: Adding display: none to ::-webkit-resizer doesn’t actually prevent the user from resizing the textarea, it just hides the control. If you want to disable resizing, set the resize CSS property to none. This also hides the control and has the added benefit of working in all browsers that support resizing textareas.

The ::-webkit-resizer pseudo-element also allows for some basic styling. If you thought the resize control could use significantly more color you could add this:

::-webkit-resizer {
  border: 2px solid black;
  background: red;
  box-shadow: 0 0 5px 5px blue;
  outline: 2px solid yellow;
}
<textarea></textarea>

This displays as follows in Chrome 26 on OS X:

This displays as follows in Chrome 26 on OS X:

Upvotes: 101

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