Is there a way to get a textarea to stretch to fit its content without using PHP or JavaScript?

Issue

I am filling a textarea with content for the user to edit.

Is it possible to make it stretch to fit content with CSS (like overflow:show for a div)?

Solution

Not really. This is normally done using javascript.

there is a good discussion of ways of doing this here...

Autosizing textarea using Prototype

Answered By - Rik Heywood