Build an Elastic Textarea with Ext JS

27th August 2009
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Tagged in: browser, code, css, enter, facebook, function, internet, javascript, source

Since it was first featured on Facebook, elastic textareas – elements that automatically expand or shrink depending on how much text the user inputs – has become one of the coolest functional UI effects on the web. In this article, I will guide you through the re-creation of this astonishing effect using Ext JS , and I bet you that you will be surprised to see how easy it is to do it

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Build an Elastic Textarea with Ext JS

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