There was another thread about this, which I've tried. But there is one problem: the textarea doesn't shrink if you delete the content. I can't find any way to shrink it to the correct size - the clientHeight value comes back as the full size of the textarea, not its contents.
The code from that page is below:
function FitToContent(id, maxHeight)
{
var text = id && id.style ? id : document.getElementById(id);
if ( !text )
return;
var adjustedHeight = text.clientHeight;
if ( !maxHeight || maxHeight > adjustedHeight )
{
adjustedHeight = Math.max(text.scrollHeight, adjustedHeight);
if ( maxHeight )
adjustedHeight = Math.min(maxHeight, adjustedHeight);
if ( adjustedHeight > text.clientHeight )
text.style.height = adjustedHeight + "px";
}
}
window.onload = function() {
document.getElementById("ta").onkeyup = function() {
FitToContent( this, 500 )
};
}
A COMPLETE YET SIMPLE SOLUTION
Updated 2022-08-30
(Added support for single row multiple textbox by default)
The following code will work:
On key input.
With pasted text (right click & ctrl+v).
With cut text (right click & ctrl+x).
With pre-loaded text.
With all textarea's (multiline textbox's) site wide.
With Firefox (v31-109 tested).
With Chrome (v37-108 tested).
With IE (v9-v11 tested).
With Edge (v14-v108 tested).
With IOS Safari.
With Android Browser.
With JavaScript strict mode.
OPTION 1 (With jQuery)
This option requires jQuery and has been tested and is working with 1.7.2 - 3.6.3
Simple (Add this jQuery code to your master script file and forget about it.)
$("textarea").each(function () {
this.setAttribute("style", "height:" + (this.scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
}).on("input", function () {
this.style.height = 0;
this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
});
<script src="https://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-3.6.3.min.js"></script>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT.
This JavaScript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>
Test on jsfiddle
OPTION 2 (Pure JavaScript)
Simple (Add this JavaScript to your master script file and forget about it.)
const tx = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
for (let i = 0; i < tx.length; i++) {
tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + (tx[i].scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
tx[i].addEventListener("input", OnInput, false);
}
function OnInput() {
this.style.height = 0;
this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
}
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT. This JavaScript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>
Test on jsfiddle
OPTION 3 (jQuery Extension)
Useful if you want to apply further chaining to the textareas, you want to be auto-sized.
jQuery.fn.extend({
autoHeight: function () {
function autoHeight_(element) {
return jQuery(element)
.css({ "height": 0, "overflow-y": "hidden" })
.height(element.scrollHeight);
}
return this.each(function() {
autoHeight_(this).on("input", function() {
autoHeight_(this);
});
});
}
});
Invoke with $("textarea").autoHeight()
UPDATING TEXTAREA VIA JAVASCRIPT
When injecting content into a textarea via JavaScript, append the following code to invoke the function in option 1.
$("textarea").trigger("input");
PRESET TEXTAREA HEIGHT
To fix the initial height of the textarea you will need to add another condition:
const txHeight = 16;
const tx = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
for (let i = 0; i < tx.length; i++) {
if (tx[i].value == '') {
tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + txHeight + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
} else {
tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + (tx[i].scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
}
tx[i].addEventListener("input", OnInput, false);
}
function OnInput(e) {
this.style.height = 0;
this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
}
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT. This JavaScript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>
This works for me (Firefox 3.6/4.0 and Chrome 10/11):
var observe;
if (window.attachEvent) {
observe = function (element, event, handler) {
element.attachEvent('on'+event, handler);
};
}
else {
observe = function (element, event, handler) {
element.addEventListener(event, handler, false);
};
}
function init () {
var text = document.getElementById('text');
function resize () {
text.style.height = 'auto';
text.style.height = text.scrollHeight+'px';
}
/* 0-timeout to get the already changed text */
function delayedResize () {
window.setTimeout(resize, 0);
}
observe(text, 'change', resize);
observe(text, 'cut', delayedResize);
observe(text, 'paste', delayedResize);
observe(text, 'drop', delayedResize);
observe(text, 'keydown', delayedResize);
text.focus();
text.select();
resize();
}
textarea {
border: 0 none white;
overflow: hidden;
padding: 0;
outline: none;
background-color: #D0D0D0;
}
<body onload="init();">
<textarea rows="1" style="height:1em;" id="text"></textarea>
</body>
If you want try it on jsfiddle
It starts with a single line and grows only the exact amount necessary. It is ok for a single textarea, but I wanted to write something where I would have many many many such textareas (about as much as one would normally have lines in a large text document). In that case it is really slow. (In Firefox it's insanely slow.) So I really would like an approach that uses pure CSS. This would be possible with contenteditable, but I want it to be plaintext-only.
jQuery solution
adjust the css to match your requirements
css...
div#container textarea {
min-width: 270px;
width: 270px;
height: 22px;
line-height: 24px;
min-height: 22px;
overflow-y: hidden; /* fixes scrollbar flash - kudos to #brettjonesdev */
padding-top: 1.1em; /* fixes text jump on Enter keypress */
}
javascript...
// auto adjust the height of
$('#container').delegate( 'textarea', 'keydown', function (){
$(this).height( 0 );
$(this).height( this.scrollHeight );
});
$('#container').find( 'textarea' ).keydown();
OR alternative for jQuery 1.7+...
// auto adjust the height of
$('#container').on( 'keyup', 'textarea', function (){
$(this).height( 0 );
$(this).height( this.scrollHeight );
});
$('#container').find( 'textarea' ).keyup();
I've created a fiddle with the absolute minimum styling as a starting point for your experiments...
http://jsfiddle.net/53eAy/951/
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Textarea autoresize</title>
<style>
textarea {
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
<script>
function resizeTextarea(ev) {
this.style.height = '24px';
this.style.height = this.scrollHeight + 12 + 'px';
}
var te = document.querySelector('textarea');
te.addEventListener('input', resizeTextarea);
</script>
</head>
<body>
<textarea></textarea>
</body>
</html>
Tested in Firefox 14 and Chromium 18. The numbers 24 and 12 are arbitrary, test to see what suits you best.
You could do without the style and script tags, but it becomes a bit messy imho (this is old style HTML+JS and is not encouraged).
<textarea style="overflow: hidden" onkeyup="this.style.height='24px'; this.style.height = this.scrollHeight + 12 + 'px';"></textarea>
Edit: modernized code. Changed onkeyup attribute to addEventListener.
Edit: keydown works better than keyup
Edit: declare function before using
Edit: input works better than keydown (thnx #WASD42 & #MA-Maddin)
jsfiddle
The best solution (works and is short) for me is:
$(document).on('input', 'textarea', function () {
$(this).outerHeight(38).outerHeight(this.scrollHeight); // 38 or '1em' -min-height
});
It works like a charm without any blinking with paste (with mouse also), cut, entering and it shrinks to the right size.
Please take a look at jsFiddle.
Found an one liner from here;
<textarea name="text" oninput="this.style.height = ''; this.style.height = this.scrollHeight +'px'"></textarea>
If you don’t need to support IE8 you can use the input event:
var resizingTextareas = [].slice.call(document.querySelectorAll('textarea[autoresize]'));
resizingTextareas.forEach(function(textarea) {
textarea.addEventListener('input', autoresize, false);
});
function autoresize() {
this.style.height = 'auto';
this.style.height = this.scrollHeight+'px';
this.scrollTop = this.scrollHeight;
window.scrollTo(window.scrollLeft,(this.scrollTop+this.scrollHeight));
}
Now you only need to add some CSS and you are done:
textarea[autoresize] {
display: block;
overflow: hidden;
resize: none;
}
Usage:
<textarea autoresize>Type here and I’ll resize.</textarea>
You can read more about how it works on my blog post.
You're using the higher value of the current clientHeight and the content scrollHeight. When you make the scrollHeight smaller by removing content, the calculated area can't get smaller because the clientHeight, previously set by style.height, is holding it open. You could instead take a max() of scrollHeight and a minimum height value you have predefined or calculated from textarea.rows.
In general you probably shouldn't really rely on scrollHeight on form controls. Apart from scrollHeight being traditionally less widely-supported than some of the other IE extensions, HTML/CSS says nothing about how form controls are implemented internally and you aren't guaranteed scrollHeight will be anything meaningful. (Traditionally some browsers have used OS widgets for the task, making CSS and DOM interaction on their internals impossible.) At least sniff for scrollHeight/clientHeight's existance before trying to enable the effect.
Another possible alternative approach to avoid the issue if it's important that it work more widely might be to use a hidden div sized to the same width as the textarea, and set in the same font. On keyup, you copy the text from the textarea to a text node in hidden div (remembering to replace '\n' with a line break, and escape '<'/'&' properly if you're using innerHTML). Then simply measuring the div's offsetHeight will give you the height you need.
autosize
https://github.com/jackmoore/autosize
Just works, standalone, is popular (3.0k+ GitHub stars as of October 2018), available on cdnjs) and lightweight (~3.5k). Demo:
<textarea id="autosize" style="width:200px;">a
J b
c</textarea>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/autosize.js/4.0.2/autosize.min.js"></script>
<script>autosize(document.querySelectorAll('#autosize'));</script>
BTW, if you are using the ACE editor, use maxLines: Infinity: Automatically adjust height to contents in Ace Cloud 9 editor
As a different approach, you can use a <span> which adjusts its size automatically. You will need make it editable by adding the contenteditable="true" property and you're done:
div {
width: 200px;
}
span {
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 5px;
}
<div>
<span contenteditable="true">This text can be edited by the user</span>
</div>
The only issue with this approach is that if you want to submit the value as part of the form, you'll have to do so by yourself in JavaScript. Doing so is relatively easy. For example, you can add a hidden field and in the onsubmit event of the form assign the value of the span to the hidden field which will be then automatically submitted with the form.
There is a slightly different approach.
<div style="position: relative">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word"></pre>
<textarea style="position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%"></textarea>
</div>
The idea is to copy the text from textarea into the pre and let CSS make sure that they have the same size.
The benefit is that frameworks present simple tools to move text around without touching any events. Namely, in AngularJS you would add a ng-model="foo" ng-trim="false" to the textarea and ng-bind="foo + '\n'" to the pre. See a fiddle.
Just make sure that pre has the same font size as the textarea.
Has anyone considered contenteditable? No messing around with scrolling,a nd the only JS I like about it is if you plan on saving the data on blur... and apparently, it's compatible on all of the popular browsers : http://caniuse.com/#feat=contenteditable
Just style it to look like a text box, and it autosizes... Make its min-height the preferred text height and have at it.
What's cool about this approach is that you can save and tags on some of the browsers.
http://jsfiddle.net/gbutiri/v31o8xfo/
var _auto_value = '';
$(document).on('blur', '.autosave', function(e) {
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.text().trim() == '') {
$this.html('');
}
// The text is here. Do whatever you want with it.
$this.addClass('saving');
if (_auto_value !== $this.html() || $this.hasClass('error')) {
// below code is for example only.
$.ajax({
url: '/echo/json/?action=xyz_abc',
data: 'data=' + $this.html(),
type: 'post',
datatype: 'json',
success: function(d) {
console.log(d);
$this.removeClass('saving error').addClass('saved');
var k = setTimeout(function() {
$this.removeClass('saved error')
}, 500);
},
error: function() {
$this.removeClass('saving').addClass('error');
}
});
} else {
$this.removeClass('saving');
}
}).on('focus mouseup', '.autosave', function() {
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.text().trim() == '') {
$this.html('');
}
_auto_value = $this.html();
}).on('keyup', '.autosave', function(e) {
var $this = $(this);
if ($this.text().trim() == '') {
$this.html('');
}
});
body {
background: #3A3E3F;
font-family: Arial;
}
label {
font-size: 11px;
color: #ddd;
}
.autoheight {
min-height: 16px;
font-size: 16px;
margin: 0;
padding: 10px;
font-family: Arial;
line-height: 20px;
box-sizing: border-box;
-o-box-sizing: border-box;
-moz-box-sizing: border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing: border-box;
overflow: hidden;
display: block;
resize: none;
border: 0;
outline: none;
min-width: 200px;
background: #ddd;
max-height: 400px;
overflow: auto;
}
.autoheight:hover {
background: #eee;
}
.autoheight:focus {
background: #fff;
}
.autosave {
-webkit-transition: all .2s;
-moz-transition: all .2s;
transition: all .2s;
position: relative;
float: none;
}
.autoheight * {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.autosave.saving {
background: #ff9;
}
.autosave.saved {
background: #9f9;
}
.autosave.error {
background: #f99;
}
.autosave:hover {
background: #eee;
}
.autosave:focus {
background: #fff;
}
[contenteditable=true]:empty:before {
content: attr(placeholder);
color: #999;
position: relative;
top: 0px;
/*
For IE only, do this:
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
*/
cursor: text;
}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<label>Your Name</label>
<div class="autoheight autosave contenteditable" contenteditable="true" placeholder="Your Name"></div>
The following works for cutting, pasting, etc., regardless of whether those actions are from the mouse, a keyboard shortcut, selecting an option from a menu bar ... several answers take a similar approach but they don't account for box-sizing, which is why they incorrectly apply the style overflow: hidden.
I do the following, which also works well with max-height and rows for minimum and maximum height.
function adjust() {
var style = this.currentStyle || window.getComputedStyle(this);
var boxSizing = style.boxSizing === 'border-box'
? parseInt(style.borderBottomWidth, 10) +
parseInt(style.borderTopWidth, 10)
: 0;
this.style.height = '';
this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight + boxSizing) + 'px';
};
var textarea = document.getElementById("ta");
if ('onpropertychange' in textarea) { // IE
textarea.onpropertychange = adjust;
} else if ('oninput' in textarea) {
textarea.oninput = adjust;
}
setTimeout(adjust.bind(textarea));
textarea {
resize: none;
max-height: 150px;
border: 1px solid #999;
outline: none;
font: 18px sans-serif;
color: #333;
width: 100%;
padding: 8px 14px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
<textarea rows="3" id="ta">
Try adding several lines to this.
</textarea>
For absolute completeness, you should call the adjust function in a few more circumstances:
Window resize events, if the width of the textarea changes with window resizing, or other events that change the width of the textarea
When the textarea's display style attribute changes, e.g. when it goes from none (hidden) to block
When the value of the textarea is changed programmatically
Note that using window.getComputedStyle or getting currentStyle can be somewhat computationally expensive, so you may want to cache the result instead.
Works for IE6, so I really hope that's good enough support.
I used the following code for multiple textareas. Working fine in Chrome 12, Firefox 5 and IE 9, even with delete, cut and paste actions performed in the textareas.
function attachAutoResizeEvents() {
for (i = 1; i <= 4; i++) {
var txtX = document.getElementById('txt' + i)
var minH = txtX.style.height.substr(0, txtX.style.height.indexOf('px'))
txtX.onchange = new Function("resize(this," + minH + ")")
txtX.onkeyup = new Function("resize(this," + minH + ")")
txtX.onchange(txtX, minH)
}
}
function resize(txtX, minH) {
txtX.style.height = 'auto' // required when delete, cut or paste is performed
txtX.style.height = txtX.scrollHeight + 'px'
if (txtX.scrollHeight <= minH)
txtX.style.height = minH + 'px'
}
window.onload = attachAutoResizeEvents
textarea {
border: 0 none;
overflow: hidden;
outline: none;
background-color: #eee
}
<textarea style='height:100px;font-family:arial' id="txt1"></textarea>
<textarea style='height:125px;font-family:arial' id="txt2"></textarea>
<textarea style='height:150px;font-family:arial' id="txt3"></textarea>
<textarea style='height:175px;font-family:arial' id="txt4"></textarea>
A bit corrections. Works perfectly in Opera
$('textarea').bind('keyup keypress', function() {
$(this).height('');
var brCount = this.value.split('\n').length;
this.rows = brCount+1; //++ To remove twitching
var areaH = this.scrollHeight,
lineHeight = $(this).css('line-height').replace('px',''),
calcRows = Math.floor(areaH/lineHeight);
this.rows = calcRows;
});
I Don't know if anyone mention this way but in some cases it's possible to resize the height with rows Attribute
textarea.setAttribute('rows',breaks);
Demo
Here is an angularjs directive for panzi's answer.
module.directive('autoHeight', function() {
return {
restrict: 'A',
link: function(scope, element, attrs) {
element = element[0];
var resize = function(){
element.style.height = 'auto';
element.style.height = (element.scrollHeight)+'px';
};
element.addEventListener('change', resize, false);
element.addEventListener('cut', resize, false);
element.addEventListener('paste', resize, false);
element.addEventListener('drop', resize, false);
element.addEventListener('keydown',resize, false);
setTimeout(resize, 100);
}
};
});
HTML:
<textarea ng-model="foo" auto-height></textarea>
I know a short and correct way of implementing this with jquery.No extra hidden div needed and works in most browser
<script type="text/javascript">$(function(){
$("textarea").live("keyup keydown",function(){
var h=$(this);
h.height(60).height(h[0].scrollHeight);//where 60 is minimum height of textarea
});});
</script>
Some of the answers here don't account for padding.
Assuming you have a maxHeight you don't want to go over, this worked for me:
// obviously requires jQuery
// element is the textarea DOM node
var $el = $(element);
// inner height is height + padding
// outerHeight includes border (and possibly margins too?)
var padding = $el.innerHeight() - $el.height();
var originalHeight = $el.height();
// XXX: Don't leave this hardcoded
var maxHeight = 300;
var adjust = function() {
// reset it to the original height so that scrollHeight makes sense
$el.height(originalHeight);
// this is the desired height (adjusted to content size)
var height = element.scrollHeight - padding;
// If you don't want a maxHeight, you can ignore this
height = Math.min(height, maxHeight);
// Set the height to the new adjusted height
$el.height(height);
}
// The input event only works on modern browsers
element.addEventListener('input', adjust);
An even simpler, cleaner approach is this:
// adjust height of textarea.auto-height
$(document).on( 'keyup', 'textarea.auto-height', function (e){
$(this).css('height', 'auto' ); // you can have this here or declared in CSS instead
$(this).height( this.scrollHeight );
}).keyup();
// and the CSS
textarea.auto-height {
resize: vertical;
max-height: 600px; /* set as you need it */
height: auto; /* can be set here of in JS */
overflow-y: auto;
word-wrap:break-word
}
All that is needed is to add the .auto-height class to any textarea you want to target.
Tested in FF, Chrome and Safari. Let me know if this doesn't work for you, for any reason. But, this is the cleanest and simplest way I've found this to work. And it works great! :D
You can use JQuery to expand the textarea while typing:
$(document).find('textarea').each(function () {
var offset = this.offsetHeight - this.clientHeight;
$(this).on('keyup input focus', function () {
$(this).css('height', 'auto').css('height', this.scrollHeight + offset);
});
});
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div>
<textarea name="note"></textarea>
<div>
Those who want to achieve the same in new versions of Angular.
Grab textArea elementRef.
#ViewChild('textArea', { read: ElementRef }) textArea: ElementRef;
public autoShrinkGrow() {
textArea.style.overflow = 'hidden';
textArea.style.height = '0px';
textArea.style.height = textArea.scrollHeight + 'px';
}
<textarea (keyup)="autoGrow()" #textArea></textarea>
I am also adding another use case that may come handy some users reading the thread, when user want to increase the height of text-area to certain height and then have overflow:scroll on it, above method can be extended to achieve the mentioned use-case.
public autoGrowShrinkToCertainHeight() {
const textArea = this.textArea.nativeElement;
if (textArea.scrollHeight > 77) {
textArea.style.overflow = 'auto';
return;
}
else {
textArea.style.overflow = 'hidden';
textArea.style.height = '0px';
textArea.style.height = textArea.scrollHeight + 'px';
}
}
my implementation is very simple, count the number of lines in the input (and minimum 2 rows to show that it's a textarea):
textarea.rows = Math.max(2, textarea.value.split("\n").length) // # oninput
full working example with stimulus: https://jsbin.com/kajosolini/1/edit?html,js,output
(and this works with the browser's manual resize handle for instance)
This code works for pasting and select delete also.
onKeyPressTextMessage = function(){
var textArea = event.currentTarget;
textArea.style.height = 'auto';
textArea.style.height = textArea.scrollHeight + 'px';
};
<textarea onkeyup="onKeyPressTextMessage(event)" name="welcomeContentTmpl" id="welcomeContent" onblur="onblurWelcomeTitle(event)" rows="2" cols="40" maxlength="320"></textarea>
Here is the JSFiddle
I recommend the javascript library from http://javierjulio.github.io/textarea-autosize.
Per comments, add example codeblock on plugin usage:
<textarea class="js-auto-size" rows="1"></textarea>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.1.0.min.js"></script>
<script src="jquery.textarea_autosize.min.js"></script>
<script>
$('textarea.js-auto-size').textareaAutoSize();
</script>
Minimum required CSS:
textarea {
box-sizing: border-box;
max-height: 160px; // optional but recommended
min-height: 38px;
overflow-x: hidden; // for Firefox (issue #5)
}
MakeTextAreaResisable that uses qQuery
function MakeTextAreaResisable(id) {
var o = $(id);
o.css("overflow-y", "hidden");
function ResizeTextArea() {
o.height('auto');
o.height(o[0].scrollHeight);
}
o.on('change', function (e) {
ResizeTextArea();
});
o.on('cut paste drop keydown', function (e) {
window.setTimeout(ResizeTextArea, 0);
});
o.focus();
o.select();
ResizeTextArea();
}
None of the answers seem to work. But this one works for me:
https://coderwall.com/p/imkqoq/resize-textarea-to-fit-content
$('#content').on( 'change keyup keydown paste cut', 'textarea', function (){
$(this).height(0).height(this.scrollHeight);
}).find( 'textarea' ).change();
Accepted answer is working fine. But that is lot of code for this simple functionality. The below code will do the trick.
$(document).on("keypress", "textarea", function (e) {
var height = $(this).css("height");
var iScrollHeight = $(this).prop("scrollHeight");
$(this).css('height',iScrollHeight);
});
An example implementation with React:
const {
useLayoutEffect,
useState,
useRef
} = React;
const TextArea = () => {
const ref = useRef();
const [value, setValue] = useState('Some initial text that both wraps and uses\nnew\nlines');
// This only tracks the auto-sized height so we can tell if the user has manually resized
const autoHeight = useRef();
useLayoutEffect(() => {
if (!ref.current) {
return;
}
if (
autoHeight.current !== undefined &&
ref.current.style.height !== autoHeight.current
) {
// don't auto size if the user has manually changed the height
return;
}
ref.current.style.height = "auto";
ref.current.style.overflow = "hidden";
const next = `${ref.current.scrollHeight}px`;
ref.current.style.height = next;
autoHeight.current = next;
ref.current.style.overflow = "auto";
}, [value, ref, autoHeight]);
return (
<textarea
ref={ref}
style={{
resize: 'vertical',
minHeight: '1em',
}}
value={value}
onChange={event => setValue(event.target.value)}
/>
);
}
ReactDOM.render(<TextArea />, document.getElementById('app'))
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react/17.0.1/umd/react.production.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/react-dom/17.0.1/umd/react-dom.production.min.js"></script>
<div id="app"></div>
A simple way to do using React.
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const textareaRef = useRef();
const handleChange = (e) => {
textareaRef.current.style.height = "auto";
textareaRef.current.style.height = textareaRef.current.scrollHeight + "px";
};
return <textarea ref={textareaRef} onChange={handleChange} />;
Is it possible to set the cursor to 'wait' on the entire html page in a simple way? The idea is to show the user that something is going on while an ajax call is being completed. The code below shows a simplified version of what I tried and also demonstrate the problems I run into:
if an element (#id1) has a cursor style set it will ignore the one set on body (obviously)
some elements have a default cursor style (a) and will not show the wait cursor on hover
the body element has a certain height depending on the content and if the page is short, the cursor will not show below the footer
The test:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
#id1 {
background-color: #06f;
cursor: pointer;
}
#id2 {
background-color: #f60;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="id1">cursor: pointer</div>
<div id="id2">no cursor</div>
Do something
</body>
</html>
Later edit...
It worked in firefox and IE with:
div#mask { display: none; cursor: wait; z-index: 9999;
position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; height: 100%;
width: 100%; background-color: #fff; opacity: 0; filter: alpha(opacity = 0);}
<a href="#" onclick="document.getElementById('mask').style.display = 'block'; return false">
Do something</a>
The problem with (or feature of) this solution is that it will prevent clicks because of the overlapping div (thanks Kibbee)
Later later edit...
A simpler solution from Dorward:
.wait, .wait * { cursor: wait !important; }
and then
Do something
This solution only shows the wait cursor but allows clicks.
If you use this slightly modified version of the CSS you posted from Dorward,
html.wait, html.wait * { cursor: wait !important; }
you can then add some really simple jQuery to work for all ajax calls:
$(document).ready(function () {
$(document).ajaxStart(function () { $("html").addClass("wait"); });
$(document).ajaxStop(function () { $("html").removeClass("wait"); });
});
or, for older jQuery versions (before 1.9):
$(document).ready(function () {
$("html").ajaxStart(function () { $(this).addClass("wait"); });
$("html").ajaxStop(function () { $(this).removeClass("wait"); });
});
I understand you may not have control over this, but you might instead go for a "masking" div that covers the entire body with a z-index higher than 1. The center part of the div could contain a loading message if you like.
Then, you can set the cursor to wait on the div and don't have to worry about links as they are "under" your masking div. Here's some example CSS for the "masking div":
body { height: 100%; }
div#mask { cursor: wait; z-index: 999; height: 100%; width: 100%; }
This seems to work in firefox
<style>
*{ cursor: inherit;}
body{ cursor: wait;}
</style>
The * part ensures that the cursor doesn't change when you hover over a link. Although links will still be clickable.
I have been struggling with this problem for hours today.
Basically everything was working just fine in FireFox but (of course) not in IE.
In IE the wait cursor was showing AFTER the time consuming function was executed.
I finally found the trick on this site:
http://www.codingforums.com/archive/index.php/t-37185.html
Code:
//...
document.body.style.cursor = 'wait';
setTimeout(this.SomeLongFunction, 1);
//setTimeout syntax when calling a function with parameters
//setTimeout(function() {MyClass.SomeLongFunction(someParam);}, 1);
//no () after function name this is a function ref not a function call
setTimeout(this.SetDefaultCursor, 1);
...
function SetDefaultCursor() {document.body.style.cursor = 'default';}
function SomeLongFunction(someParam) {...}
My code runs in a JavaScript class hence the this and MyClass (MyClass is a singleton).
I had the same problems when trying to display a div as described on this page. In IE it was showing after the function had been executed. So I guess this trick would solve that problem too.
Thanks a zillion time to glenngv the author of the post. You really made my day!!!
Easiest way I know is using JQuery like this:
$('*').css('cursor','wait');
css: .waiting * { cursor: 'wait' }
jQuery: $('body').toggleClass('waiting');
Why don't you just use one of those fancy loading graphics (eg: http://ajaxload.info/)? The waiting cursor is for the browser itself - so whenever it appears it has something to do with the browser and not with the page.
To set the cursor from JavaScript for the whole window, use:
document.documentElement.style.cursor = 'wait';
From CSS:
html { cursor: wait; }
Add further logic as needed.
Try the css:
html.waiting {
cursor: wait;
}
It seems that if the property body is used as apposed to html it doesn't show the wait cursor over the whole page. Furthermore if you use a css class you can easily control when it actually shows it.
Here is a more elaborate solution that does not require external CSS:
function changeCursor(elem, cursor, decendents) {
if (!elem) elem=$('body');
// remove all classes starting with changeCursor-
elem.removeClass (function (index, css) {
return (css.match (/(^|\s)changeCursor-\S+/g) || []).join(' ');
});
if (!cursor) return;
if (typeof decendents==='undefined' || decendents===null) decendents=true;
let cname;
if (decendents) {
cname='changeCursor-Dec-'+cursor;
if ($('style:contains("'+cname+'")').length < 1) $('<style>').text('.'+cname+' , .'+cname+' * { cursor: '+cursor+' !important; }').appendTo('head');
} else {
cname='changeCursor-'+cursor;
if ($('style:contains("'+cname+'")').length < 1) $('<style>').text('.'+cname+' { cursor: '+cursor+' !important; }').appendTo('head');
}
elem.addClass(cname);
}
with this you can do:
changeCursor(, 'wait'); // wait cursor on all decendents of body
changeCursor($('#id'), 'wait', false); // wait cursor on elem with id only
changeCursor(); // remove changed cursor from body
I used a adaptation of Eric Wendelin's solution. It will show a transparent, animated overlay wait-div over the whole body, the click will be blocked by the wait-div while visible:
css:
div#waitMask {
z-index: 999;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
right: 0;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
cursor: wait;
background-color: #000;
opacity: 0;
transition-duration: 0.5s;
-webkit-transition-duration: 0.5s;
}
js:
// to show it
$("#waitMask").show();
$("#waitMask").css("opacity"); // must read it first
$("#waitMask").css("opacity", "0.8");
...
// to hide it
$("#waitMask").css("opacity", "0");
setTimeout(function() {
$("#waitMask").hide();
}, 500) // wait for animation to end
html:
<body>
<div id="waitMask" style="display:none;"> </div>
... rest of html ...
My Two pence:
Step 1:
Declare an array. This will be used to store the original cursors that were assigned:
var vArrOriginalCursors = new Array(2);
Step 2:
Implement the function cursorModifyEntirePage
function CursorModifyEntirePage(CursorType){
var elements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');
alert("These are the elements found:" + elements.length);
let lclCntr = 0;
vArrOriginalCursors.length = elements.length;
for(lclCntr = 0; lclCntr < elements.length; lclCntr++){
vArrOriginalCursors[lclCntr] = elements[lclCntr].style.cursor;
elements[lclCntr].style.cursor = CursorType;
}
}
What it does:
Gets all the elements on the page. Stores the original cursors assigned to them in the array declared in step 1. Modifies the cursors to the desired cursor as passed by parameter CursorType
Step 3:
Restore the cursors on the page
function CursorRestoreEntirePage(){
let lclCntr = 0;
var elements = document.body.getElementsByTagName('*');
for(lclCntr = 0; lclCntr < elements.length; lclCntr++){
elements[lclCntr].style.cursor = vArrOriginalCursors[lclCntr];
}
}
I have run this in an application and it works fine.
Only caveat is that I have not tested it when you are dynamically adding the elements.
BlockUI is the answer for everything. Give it a try.
http://www.malsup.com/jquery/block/
This pure JavaScript seems to work pretty well ... tested on FireFox, Chrome, and Edge browsers.
I'm not sure about the performance of this if you had an overabundance of elements on your page and a slow computer ... try it and see.
Set cursor for all elements to wait:
Object.values(document.querySelectorAll('*')).forEach(element => element.style.cursor = "wait");
Set cursor for all elements back to default:
Object.values(document.querySelectorAll('*')).forEach(element => element.style.cursor = "default");
An alternative (and perhaps a bit more readable) version would be to create a setCursor function as follows:
function setCursor(cursor)
{
var x = document.querySelectorAll("*");
for (var i = 0; i < x.length; i++)
{
x[i].style.cursor = cursor;
}
}
and then call
setCursor("wait");
and
setCursor("default");
to set the wait cursor and default cursor respectively.
Lots of good answers already, but none of them mentions the <dialog> element.
Using this element we can create a solution similar to the masking <div>.
Here we use showModal() to "hide" elements, and we use ::backdrop to set the cursor style to wait on the entire page:
function showWaitDialog() {
document.getElementById('id_dialog').showModal();
}
#id_dialog, #id_dialog::backdrop {
cursor: wait;
}
<button onclick="showWaitDialog()">click me</button>
<dialog id="id_dialog">busy...</dialog>
The dialog is hidden by default, and can be shown using either the show() method, or the showModal() method, which prevents clicking outside the dialog.
The dialog can be forced to close using the close() method, if necessary.
However, if your button links to another page, for example, then the dialog will disappear automatically as soon as the new page is loaded.
Note that the dialog can also be closed at any time by hitting the Esc key.
CSS can be used to style the dialog however you like.
The example uses the html onclick attribute, just for simplicity. Obviously, addEventListener() could also be used.
Late to the party but simply give the Html tag an id by targeting
document.documentElement
and in the CSS place at the top
html#wait * {
cursor: wait !important;
}
and simply remove it when you want to stop this cursor.