Expanding the Textarea

siris · Oct 28, 2001

I have a text area like this

<textarea rows=4 name=txtAction cols='67%'></textarea>

but instead of the percentage I want to expand the textarea element to certain pixels. I know that my screen width is 1024. Now if I want to expand the text area to 550 pixels, how can I do that. Any help would be highly appreciated.

thanks.

milech · Oct 28, 2001

here are some examples:

this is the source from my site:

<textarea name="feedback" wrap="VIRTUAL" style="width: 300px; height: 108px"></textarea>

this is the source from THIS page:

<TEXTAREA COLS=60 ROWS=14 NAME="post" WRAP="virtual"></TEXTAREA>

2 different ways to accomplish the same thing. what you want would be more or less like the first example.
hope this helps.

- milech

yandso · Oct 29, 2001

You could also make the field dynamic by changing the size based on the screen size. This sample just takes the screen size and divides it by 4.

<head>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=javascript>
var wid = screen.availWidth/4
var hig = screen.availHeight/4
function setH(){
document.formName.feedback.style.height=hig
document.formName.feedback.style.width=wid
}
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="setH()">
<form name="formName">
<textarea name="feedback" wrap="VIRTUAL" style="width: 30px; height:10px"></textarea>
</form>

Just another option
Roj

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