Discussion on Textarea Drag Resize | Userscripts.org

Archived Comments, replied by Glenn Carr @ Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:10:11 -0500

Glenn Carr — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 09:10:11 -0500

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 @ Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:29:16 -0500

Glenn Carr — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 08:29:16 -0500

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 @ Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:03:19 -0500

Morac — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 14:03:19 -0500

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 @ Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:19:05 -0500

Morac — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 16:19:05 -0500

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 @ Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:44:59 -0500

Morac — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 10:44:59 -0500

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 @ Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:30:36 -0500

Alvin — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 05:30:36 -0500

FAIL.

Archived Comments, replied by Chris4 @ Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:56:46 -0500

Chris4 — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:56:46 -0500

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 @ Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:55 -0500

Chris4 — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 19:17:55 -0500

Thanks, trying now.

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

Archived Comments, replied by lootpacker @ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:58:38 -0600

lootpacker — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 18:58:38 -0600

This is pretty handy

Archived Comments, replied by Josh Gunderson @ Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:43:46 -0600

Josh Gunderson — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 23:43:46 -0600

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

Archived Comments, replied by Schlick @ Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:14:38 -0500

Schlick — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:14:38 -0500

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 @ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:13:34 -0500

Silly Walrus — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 18:13:34 -0500

Very useful userscript, thanks.

Archived Comments, replied by Morac @ Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:33:18 -0500

Morac — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 09:33:18 -0500

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

Archived Comments, replied by Morac @ Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:19:13 -0500

Morac — Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:19:13 -0500

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.

Archived Comments, replied by Jesse Andrews @ Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:06:03 -0600

Jesse Andrews — Tue, 16 Nov 2004 19:06:03 -0600

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