Css: Remove Scroll Bar And Replace With Variable Height For Textarea In A Table

July 30, 2023 Post a Comment

Currently I have a table row that contains a textarea for user input. The purpose of textarea is so user can input multiple lines. Code: https://jsfiddle.net/to45asgy/1/ Problem I

Solution 1:

It will hide scroll and set size for content text

functionautoheight(element) {
var el = document.getElementById(element);
    el.style.height = "5px";
    el.style.height = (el.scrollHeight)+"px";
}

table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  width: 100%;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

th, td {
  text-align: center;
  border: 1px solid black;
  padding: 10px;
}

.container {
  border: 1px solid blue;
}

.text-area {
  width: 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: flex;
  overflow:hidden;
  min-height:100%;
}

.fixed-min {
  min-width: 600px;
}

<!DOCTYPE html><html><bodyonload="autoheight('ta')"><table><tbody><tr><th>Column 1</th><th>Column 2</th></tr><tr><td><divclass="container fixed-min"><textareaclass="text-area">Set width in this big column
            </textarea></div></td><td><divclass="container" ><textareaid="ta"onkeyup="autoheight('ta')"class="text-area">This contents of this column should always be visible i.e. no scroll bar, and instead the height of this row should adjust to show all content.
            </textarea></div></td></tr></tbody></table></body></html>

Solution 2:

You can make it a div and apply "contenteditable" = true. Updated fiddle at : "https://jsfiddle.net/hbnr2yk6/"

Relevant changes required are:

<div class="text-area" contenteditable="true">This contents of this column should always be visible i.e. no scroll bar, and instead the height of this row should adjust to show all content.
            </div>

.text-area {
  width: 100%;
  box-sizing: border-box;
  display: flex;
min-height:50px;
height:auto;
border:2px solid rgba(63,63,63,1);
}

**************************** javascript solution ***********

Possible solution to fix the problem with textarea would be to use javascript. I have updated the fiddle at "https://jsfiddle.net/uqr98jf4/". In table column 1 there is textrea solution and table column 2 there is div solution. See if any one of it solves your problem.

Solution 3:

I always use this library

autosize(document.querySelector('textarea'));

Demo

Solution 4:

Please add row textarea rows and columns and columns to textarea

and add overflow: hidden or auto.

Solution 5:

To remove the scrollbar you can use overflow: auto; or overflow: hidden;.

https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/pr_pos_overflow.asp

overflow: auto; will automatically create a scrollbar if the text area becomes too overloaded with text.

CSS isn't going to be able to read the content within the textarea tag to dynamically resize the textarea tag.

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