Comment box

HTML & CSS
1

hi
I use this tutorial (http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/comment_box_code.cfm) to create a comment box.
I’ve tried to change the textarea to be {height :auto} in order to remove the scroll from the textarea,
but that doesn’t work.
I don’t want to have a scroll in the textarea.
What can I do??!:rolleyes:
Thanks

2

Is this something you are seeing in IE? If so, you can remove the scroll bar with this:

textarea {
  overflow: auto;
}

(The link you provided is broken.)

3

It’s in chrome
http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/comment_box_code.cfm

4

That link doesn’t show scroll in the textarea in Chrome. I think we’ll have to see your actual page, or a working example that demonstrates the problem.

5

I’m sorry
But I mean when I’d written a long comment e.g. thirty lines …
Will the comment appear in a box that contain a scroll or not(the box will obtain the height depending on the comment length)?
“I guess I could n’t see the result until it’s done with php or .asp”
Again sorry for the ambiguity.

6

O, I see what you mean. I don’t think there’s a way to do what you want with CSS alone, although a lot of browsers allow the user manually to make the textarea larger (with the little handle at the bottom right). But you can use JavaScript to make the textarea expand automatically as more text is added. Here is a jQuery script:

http://james.padolsey.com/demos/plugins/jQuery/autoresize.jquery.js/view

that is recommended by Chris Coyier:

7

Thanks ralph.m