How to make textareas grow automatically with a little bit of CSS and one line of JavaScript
Written by Stefan Judis
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This post is a quick one for the bookmarks: Chris Coyier shared a smart way to automatically grow textareas when user content expands across the defined textarea size.
The solution uses stacked CSS grid elements, pseudo-elements, and one (!) line of inline JavaScript. Beautiful!
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