Javascript Tidbits [David W. Jeske]

[IE5/IE5.5] automatic resizing of TEXTAREAs
This code allows you to have textareas which automatically resize based on the browser size. If you make a page which is small, this means you can have the textarea always fit completely within the browser, and thus you'll never have the "double-scrollbar" problem where someone has to scroll the browser scrollbar just to be able to reach the offscreen/hidden scrollbar of the textarea.
<HTML> <HEAD> <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript1.2">  </SCRIPT> </HEAD> <BODY onload="onLoad();" onresize="onResize();"> <H3>One big textarea</H3> If you are using IE, this textarea should take up the whole browser as you resize. <FORM NAME=myform> <TEXTAREA NAME=myta STYLE="font-face:Lucida Console; font-size:8pt" COLS=5 ROWS=5> </TEXTAREA> </FORM> </BODY> </HTML>

David W. Jeske (jeske@chat.net)