Discussion on Textarea Drag Resize | Userscripts.org

Version "20 Oct 2009", replied by Morac

Morac — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 06:42:25 +0000

Fixed a bug that prevented the script from working on lists.
Fixed broken upgrade detection functionality, which unfortunately means that users won't be notified of this new version.

Version "21 Sep 2009", replied by Morac

Morac — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:05:04 +0000

I'd prefer built-in automatic updates as well, but the problem is that userscripts are implemented differently in different browsers (GreaseMonkey in Firefox, built-in in Opera, etc) so all of the implementations would have to update the same way. Since GreaseMonkey hasn't been updated in ages (it still has a number of annoying bugs), I doubt this will ever happen.

Version "21 Sep 2009", replied by DarKHelmeT

DarKHelmeT — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:44:47 +0000

ya it would be nice if there was a global update feature on GM. but oh well, at least devs like this one choose to add auto updating :)

Version "21 Sep 2009", replied by pihentagy

pihentagy — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:06:03 +0000

I prefer if userscript itself took care of that process, instead of individual script...

Version "21 Sep 2009", replied by Morac

Morac — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 14:59:20 +0000

I updated the script so that the resize button will move if the page adjusts the number of columns and/or rows in the text area. In other words the resize button should always remain in the bottom right corner of the text area, even if the page resizes the text area on it's own.

I also implemented an update checking script based off the one in the YouusableTubeFix script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/13333. As such new versions of the script will automatically be detected.

Version 1.0, replied by Morac

Morac — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:04:02 +0000

I fixed it so that it shouldn't adjust the formatting of the page. It was adding extra vertical spacing above the text areas.

I added a configuration window to allow the preferences to be changes. Available by right clicking the GreaseMonkey icon and selecting "User Script Commands" and then "Configure Text Area Drag"

version 0.1.0, replied by Morac

Morac — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 20:06:19 +0000

Sorry for a bunch of these releases in a row, but I found a text area that was hidden on the page and then made visible later on. The resize button wasn't positioned correctly in this case. I fixed that.

version 0.0.0.9, replied by DarKHelmeT

DarKHelmeT — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:14:14 +0000

coo :)

version 0.0.0.9, replied by Morac

Morac — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:09:28 +0000

I still found some sites where the script messed up the formatting of the page so I completely redid the way the button is added. Now it will never mess up the page's formatting, though it could end up being hidden if the page puts text areas into small divs.

Version 0.0.0.8, replied by Morac

Morac — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:13:14 +0000

Oh and I wrapped the functions so they won't interfere with existing script on web pages.

Version 0.0.0.8, replied by Morac

Morac — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 21:11:03 +0000

I fixed an issue that periodically crops up where having this script enables causes text on web pages to be cut off because element widths aren't correct. To fix this I don't add the buttons until the page has finished loading so if the page never finishes, the buttons won't appear.

I pulled in Glenn Carr's changes for list resizing and changing the button's cursor.

Archived Comments, replied by Glenn Carr

Glenn Carr — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:10:11 +0000

Made changes to allow resizing lists:
var them = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea"); var lists = document.getElementsByTagName("select"); // new line

...and...
trace(5, them.length.toString() + " textareas."); // Start of new code: for(var i = lists.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { var listSize = lists[i].getAttribute("size"); if ( listSize != null && parseInt( listSize, 10 ) > 1 ) tweak_textarea(lists[i]); } trace(5, lists.length.toString() + " textareas."); // End new code

...and...
button.title = "Click and drag to change the size"; // changed text from "Click and drag me to change the textarea's size"

Archived Comments, replied by Glenn Carr

Glenn Carr — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 13:29:16 +0000

Thanks for the great script. Here's a minor change I made to your script to change the cursor when hovering over the resize image:
button.setAttribute('class', 'text_area_grabber_button'); GM_addStyle( '.text_area_grabber_button { cursor:se-resize }' );

Archived Comments, replied by Morac

Morac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 19:03:19 +0000

Just another update. It makes it so that the little grabber button only displays when the textarea it is attached to is displayed. This prevents a bunch of buttons from showing underneath textareas which are selected via "tabs".

Every now and then there is a page where the button shows underneath the textarea instead of next to it, but there's no way to fix that without breaking forms. The button still works, but doesn't move.

Archived Comments, replied by Morac

Morac — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:19:05 +0000

Okay the update I made yesterday broke sites that use WYSISWYG editing. I undid the changes I made yesterday and went with a more simplistic approach. The new version won't break any sites and won't mess with the formatting of the page. Also the resize button won't be displayed if the text area is actually hidden like it is on many WYSISWYG editting forums.

Archived Comments, replied by Morac

Morac — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 15:44:59 +0000

I updated to prevent it from screwing up with white space wrapping on page, i.e. pages ended up being wider than the browser window.

Unfortunately putting the textarea in a div container doesn't work because for some reason Firefox occasionally won't submit textareas that have been moved, so instead I cloned the textarea and hid the original. The clone is linked to the original such that any update to the text in the clone changes the original's text. This works well.

Archived Comments, replied by Alvin

Alvin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 10:30:36 +0000

FAIL.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris4

Chris4 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 22:56:46 +0000

This screws up the contact form on my website, so unfortunately I can no long use the script.

I thought I had broken Firefox at first, somehow.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris4

Chris4 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 00:17:55 +0000

Thanks, trying now.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,147266-page,4...

Archived Comments, replied by lootpacker

lootpacker — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 00:58:38 +0000

This is pretty handy

Archived Comments, replied by Josh Gunderson

Josh Gunderson — Thu, 03 Jan 2008 05:43:46 +0000

Works as advertised. I find it especially useful for the MySpace Mail Center.

Archived Comments, replied by Schlick

Schlick — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 10:14:38 +0000

I eagerly changed to use this script instead however on the first site I tested it on (http://esirotab.starclass.com.au/) it stuffed up the visual display of the textarea and surrounding elements.

Archived Comments, replied by Silly Walrus

Silly Walrus — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:13:34 +0000

Very useful userscript, thanks.

Archived Comments, replied by Morac

Morac — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 14:33:18 +0000

Fixed a minor issue where sometimes the text area would go off the right side of the window.

Archived Comments, replied by Morac

Morac — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 20:19:13 +0000

This is a modified version of Sean M. Burke's textarea resize script. http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/5073

I fixed the problem where sometimes the text in the textarea wouldn't be submitted (basically the text got lost).

This script does not have that problem.