Custom CSS to allow chrome textarea resize smaller than initial state?

Question

I like Chrome\'s nifty textarea resize control. However, the one exception is that the textarea appears to have a hard min-height/min-width setting that\'s not changeable vi

Answer 1

Another javascript solution:

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/nz8ut/2/

function resizableStart(e){
    this.originalW = this.clientWidth;
    this.originalH = this.clientHeight;
    this.onmousemove = resizableCheck;
    this.onmouseup = this.onmouseout = resizableEnd;
}
function resizableCheck(e){
    if(this.clientWidth !== this.originalW || this.clientHeight !== this.originalH) {
        this.originalX = e.clientX;
        this.originalY = e.clientY;
        this.onmousemove = resizableMove;
    }
}
function resizableMove(e){
    var newW = this.originalW + e.clientX - this.originalX,
        newH = this.originalH + e.clientY - this.originalY;
    if(newW < this.originalW){
        this.style.width = newW + 'px';
    }
    if(newH < this.originalH){
        this.style.height = newH + 'px';
    }
}
function resizableEnd(){
    this.onmousemove = this.onmouseout = this.onmouseup = null;
}

var els = document.getElementsByClassName('resizable');
for(var i=0, len=els.length; i

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The solution above uses mouseover and mouseout to trigger resizableStart and resizableEnd. The problem is that if the element being resized has childs, when the mouse is placed over a child, the element receives a mouseout event and, just after that, it receives a mouserover event which bubbles from child.

To avoid those events I have implemented another solution with mouseenter and mouseleave events:

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/nz8ut/3/