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Asked: 2026-05-12T05:56:02+00:00

I’d like to make a textarea resizable. I tried out jQuery UI’s resizable functionality,

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I’d like to make a textarea resizable. I tried out jQuery UI’s “resizable” functionality, but, much as I love jQuery, the resizable thing isn’t quite there yet. I want the textarea to resize heightwise only, via a handle at the bottom-center. jQuery lets you resize heightwise only, but evidently doesn’t let you place a handle anywhere other than lower right corner, despite what the docs say.

Does anyone know of an alternate library for this functionality?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Are you sure about this? The handles option worked fine for me.

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title></title>
    <link href="css/ui-lightness/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.css"
          rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
    <div id="welcome" class="ui-widget-content">Hello, world!</div>
    <script src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="js/jquery-ui-1.7.2.custom.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function() {
            $("#welcome").resizable({ handles: "n, s" });
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

    You can style the ui-resizable-handle, ui-resizable-s, and ui-resizable-n classes.

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