JQuery TextArea AutoGrow Plugin

Question

I am trying to find the best autogrow textarea plugin. I need one that resizes the text box, even when I insert it. Any idea?

Answer 1

Why not use it? http://plugins.jquery.com/project/autogrowtextarea

Or another updated version of this plugin here: https://github.com/ro31337/jquery.ns-autogrow

Answer 2

The elastic is very good, and it also handles CTRL + V cases.

You can visit the website and try the demo.

Answer 3

This is the one I used. Work so far!

http://www.jacklmoore.com/autosize/

The jQuery Elastic plugin is slow and does not work for me in IE8.

Answer 4

I used the following method in jQuery .

 setInterval(function(){ $(name_textarea).css('height', $(name_textarea)[0].scrollHeight+2+'px') },100); 

Try it, you can change scrollHeight to get the best results.

Answer 5

You can try Advanced Textarea. Download from http://www.jscripts.info

• Auto-Height Textarea
• Returns plain text and HTML content
• Automatic recognition of email and email addresses
• HTML tag filter

Answer 6

I made another plugin for this, check it out here: https://github.com/AndrewDryga/jQuery.Textarea.Autoresize

Answer 7

"I need one that resizes the text box, even when I paste it"

this method also listens for copy / paste events: stack overflow

I think that in modern browsers these events can be replaced with an “input” event, but in an earlier browser this method will not work.

Answer 8

Here is another plugin that also supports horizontal enlargement of text areas:

https://github.com/dgbeck/jquery.autogrow-textarea

It is also based on a “mirror” approach, but reverts to simple math in IE 8 and lower, since the mirror approach results in IE and lt = 8.