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glmxndr
glmxndr

Reputation: 46556

Chrome : make non resizable textareas

By default, Chrome makes my textareas resizable. I wish to control this and either make them only vertically resizable, or not at all.

How can I achieve this ?

Upvotes: 82

Views: 38851

Answers (3)

ingeniarius
ingeniarius

Reputation: 1526

Rails generate standard textarea tag, but Safari/Chrome (Webkit) display all (not only Rails :) textareas as resizable.

Its apperance may be disabled by CSS

textarea {
    resize: none;
    }

Or, if need only vertical resize:

textarea {
     resize: vertical;
     }

Upvotes: 149

nas
nas

Reputation: 3696

you can set the column and rows like

<%= text_area :object, :attribute, :rows => '10', :cols => '100' %> 
#=> <textarea cols="100" rows="10" id="object_attribute" name="object[attribute]">
#      #{@object.attribute}
#   </textarea>

or specify the size like

<%= text_area :object, :attribute, :size => "10x100" %> 
#=> <textarea cols="10" rows="100" id="object_attribute" name="object[attribute]">
#      #{@object.attribute}
#   </textarea>

Upvotes: -3

jball
jball

Reputation: 25014

Set max-width to make them only vertically resizable, or set max-height and max-width to stop all resizing.

However, be aware that breaking user expectations about how their browser treats controls tends to create a lot of user frustration.

Upvotes: 5

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