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Bug 14047 - 4.10.13 The textarea element : Can textarea element have the option to automatically expand the height of the text area when lines of input text exceeds the rows of the text area? Under some circumstance that offers better user experience. Indeed there a
Summary: 4.10.13 The textarea element : Can textarea element have the option to autom...
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML5 spec (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-09-06 17:11 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2011-10-19 23:49 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2011-09-06 17:11:22 UTC 
Specification: http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#top
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#top

Comment:
4.10.13 The textarea element : 

Can textarea element have the option to automatically expand the height of the
text area when lines of input text exceeds the rows of the text area? Under
some circumstance that offers better user experience. Indeed there are
Javascript hacks to achieve that.

4.10.7.2.12 The placeholder attribute:
Can the placeholder text support partial fading? i.e, when user clicks an
input field that has placeholder text, the placeholder text stays but fades a
bit, and it disappears only after user start typing input texts.

New feature recommendation: Lightbox
Lightbox has been used frequently on web pages to open up a new UI overlay
without loading a new page, which is more user friendly and efficient. However
that is done by using rather complicated CSS and Javascript. It will be great
that lightbox can be implemented simply as a html tag.


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Comment 1 Tab Atkins Jr. 2011-09-06 17:44:21 UTC 
It's best to file independent things as separate bugs.

For your first comment, this is a CSS issue.  In particular, it seems like it could potentially be a value for the 'resize' property, or something like that.

For your second comment, this is also a CSS issue.  This will be possible when we agree on how to target the placeholder text for styling.

For your third comment, this is addressed by the work on a <dialog> element, particular <dialog modal>.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-10-19 23:49:31 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Pretty much what Tab said. Specifically: 

> Can textarea element have the option to automatically expand the height of the
> text area when lines of input text exceeds the rows of the text area? Under
> some circumstance that offers better user experience. Indeed there are
> Javascript hacks to achieve that.

Nothing in the spec disallows browsers from doing that today.


> 4.10.7.2.12 The placeholder attribute:
> Can the placeholder text support partial fading? i.e, when user clicks an
> input field that has placeholder text, the placeholder text stays but fades a
> bit, and it disappears only after user start typing input texts.

Same here, the browsers are allowed to do this already.


> New feature recommendation: Lightbox
> Lightbox has been used frequently on web pages to open up a new UI overlay
> without loading a new page, which is more user friendly and efficient. However
> that is done by using rather complicated CSS and Javascript. It will be great
> that lightbox can be implemented simply as a html tag.

This will be handled by <dialog> if we add it (currently blocked on the chairs).