Wednesday, September 3, 2008

Resizing text area

Editing text in web browser could be painful. Remember your last Wikipedia article editing? Especially when you need to enter few more sentences than web designer thought you may enter and you have to scroll your text in a tiny little text area. It become real issue so I've got small bookmarklet for resizing text area on page. One click and every text area is 10 characters wider and longer. Instant text area enlargement. But it's not so easy when you have to look for this bookmarklet every time you edit something big. Not to mention that I am not always editing on my own PC.

Pain!

But in Chrome there is the gray thing with stripes in a bottom right corner of every text area. You drag this corner and move it right or down to make your life better.

2 comments:

Robert K S said...

This "feature" (which inexplicably can't be disabled by content authors) is worth nothing compared to the essential ability to perform a Find inside of a textarea, which Chrome lacks entirely, making it impossible to easily navigate through large documents (e.g. a big Wikipedia article).

Andrej said...

Robert, unfortunately you are right! This feature is such ubiquitous in Firefox that I didn't realize that Chrome lack it.