The only browser that will show you this special control is Safari.
All other browsers only show whatever size you set the control to in
the first place. If you want to be able to handle this gracefully,
then you need to create one of the following:
A table-based layout, meaning you select each of your page elements
and un-check the Layer checkbox in the Inspector, or turn off the CSS
Layout button before you draw the layout elements in the first place.
An inline layout, where you nest each element inside a parent text
box, as if your form elements were large individual characters of text
within that box, and use margins and floats to assemble your layout.
Freeway 5.5 and the magical RPL Action and a traditional layer-based
layout.
If you follow one of these paths, you will see that you can enlarge
the text box as large as you like in your page, and everything else
will just stretch and get out of the way.
Understand that if you drag the corner and give yourself extra space
in the textarea, once you submit the form the page snaps back to
whatever it was previously, so it’s just a convenience for you while
you’re typing War and Peace in there. Presumably, even if you covered
up the submit button in the process of filling it in, you might
realize that you could just drag it back out of the way again by means
of the same little grippy bit when it comes time to submit the form.
Walter
On Nov 10, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Gregory wrote:
I’ve got a web form with a text area, exactly like the one I’m
typing into write now. It has a resize triangle at the lower-right
corner, which is a excellent, but I have other HTML items below it,
and if a visitor enlarges it vertically, it will cover those items.
Is there any way to restrict the amount that a text area can be
enlarged? Any tips would be much appreciated.
Regards,
Gregory
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