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Textarea autogrow
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function autogrow(textarea) { | |
// create fake div with same content | |
// (only works with box-sizing border-box) | |
var dv = document.createElement("div"); | |
dv.className = 'fm-growable'; | |
dv.style.visibility="hidden"; | |
dv.style.position="absolute"; | |
textarea.parentNode.appendChild(dv); | |
function resize() { | |
// copy current textarea content | |
dv.style.width = textarea.offsetWidth + 'px'; | |
dv.innerHTML = textarea.value.replace(/\r\n|\n/g, "<br>"); | |
dv.innerHTML += textarea.value[textarea.value.length-1] === '\n'? 'A' : ''; // trailing char if ends in \n | |
// set textarea size to be the same as the div | |
textarea.style.height = dv.offsetHeight + "px"; | |
} | |
// resize right way if has some initial content | |
resize(); | |
// resize onkeydown | |
textarea.addEventListener('keydown', resize, false); | |
textarea.addEventListener('input', resize, false); | |
textarea.addEventListener('propertychange', resize, false); | |
} |
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