Craig FrancisSep 1, 2023
Christian "Schepp" Schaefer

Nice addition to CSS! 👉 Chromium Intent to Prototype: form-sizing CSS property

»By 'form-sizing' property, web authors can disable fixed default sizes of form controls, and make their size depend on their content. It's very easy to provide automatically-growing text fields.«

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/blink-dev/c/cA-cmgrA_QE/m/6uF_LYq4AAAJ

Intent to Prototype: form-sizing CSS property

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Show threadCraig FrancisSep 1, 2023
@Schepp Great, that’s going to be useful (it’s amazing how many bits of JS I’ve tired using to solve this issue, and they all have issues)… just hope iframes get this treatment as well:
https://github.com/w3c/csswg-drafts/issues/1771
[css-sizing] Auto-resize iframes based on content · Issue #1771 · w3c/csswg-drafts

In https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-style/2017Aug/0045.html, Craig Francis said: Just re-raising the suggestion of allowing an iframe or textarea to increase its height based on its content...

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Show threadChristian "Schepp" SchaeferSep 1, 2023
@craigfrancis Oh yes, that would be very helpful, too!