Question

I have a textarea which uses a jquery plugin to resize itself while the user types in it.

The problem is, I want users to be able to edit things they’ve already typed. However since the textarea starts with 35 cols, 1 row, if the user had a long message he typed, then it doesn’t completely show, only one line shows which cuts off.

Is there a way to simulate a keypress event in that textarea, so that the text resizing will fire up and resize the textarea?

There’s no way to programatically call the text resize function.

Answer 1

Just trigger the keypress event on that textarea:

$(function(){
     $('textarea').trigger('keypress');
}).

if there are multiple textareas, and you want to trigger the event on a specific textarea that has an id, of course the syntax becomes:

$(function(){
     $('#myTextarea').trigger('keypress');
}).