How can I change the look of resize handles?

Issue

I don't want to turn off resizing completely, but the resize handles on textareas don't fit with the rest of the page style. Is there a way I can change how it looks, perhaps replacing it with an image of my own? There doesn't have to be backward compatibility for browsers that don't support HTML5.

Solution

This is a tough one. There is no way of styling this specific control. Even if you force a different appearance under webkit you still get the damn resize handle:

http://jsfiddle.net/qw73n/

You can, however, work around it and place a background image in the bottom left corner:

http://jsfiddle.net/q5kdr/

But the handler will still appear on top of it.

I'm afraid the only alternative is using jQuery UI resizable:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/resizable/

Answered By - methodofaction