Expanding Textarea

This tiny web component can be dropped in as a replacement for a native textarea.

A mildly compelling demo

Here's an HTML form with an expanding-textarea and native textarea. Try them both out. Watch the outputs and poke at them with your browser's devtools.

The expanding textarea should participate in the form just like a normal textarea.

Remove styling

expanding

Textarea Label This is an… …expanding-textarea

native

Textarea Label This is a native textarea

And here's what the form values look like:

For more information, check the README on GitHub.