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Resize text area inputs in Safari

Safari has a great feature that allows you to resize any textarea form elements on a page. No longer do you have to suffer when web developers create text area that are too small to see a decent amount of text. Whenever you get a textarea element in Safari, there will be a little icon in the lower right hand corner (see the image below). Just grab this icon, and you can resize the text are so that it works for you. Yet another great feature found only in Safari.

Sample textarea in Safari showing the handle that allows you to resize the textarea. Sample textarea in Safari showing the handle that allows you to resize the textarea.
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Categories: safari browsers web design
Added: on Feb 25, 2008
Added By: an anonymous user
Searches: safari web text resize design

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So, as a web developer, how can we turn this off so it doesn't break the web site design?
– Added by an anonymous user on Sep 04, 2009
Disable textarea resize via CSS -

textarea { resize:none; }
– Added by an anonymous user on Dec 22, 2009
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