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HTML HTML Forms Form Basics The Textarea Element

SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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How to keep the user from resizing the text area?

Hi while I understand Nick's point about giving the user the option to resize the textarea, I personally think it looks a bit untidy when the text area is stretched outside the area of the <form> Background. How can I make it so the text area can only be resized up or down, the height, not the width?

4 Answers

Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
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Andrew McCormick
Andrew McCormick
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textarea {
resize: none;
}

Alfonso Montano , I don't believe that "resizable" is a valid property.

Maxim Popov
Maxim Popov
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Maxim Popov
Maxim Popov
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Hi, You may use this style to fix width

  textarea {
      max-width: 200px;
      min-width: 200px;
  }
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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Thanks andrew. I followed the link below that has the detailed different properties of the textarea that Nick suggested and found a whole bunch. You're right, resizable isn't a valid property. Thanks again for your quick responses guys. Love the treehouse community.

SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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SAMUEL LAWRENCE
SAMUEL LAWRENCE
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Hi Maxim, Thanks a lot man for this added information helped a lot. Props man!