javascript resize textarea
I found this online here:
http://tuckey.org/textareasizer/
Basically I was looking for something that would automatically resize a textbox to match the text inside of it. The application was for a web app where the text could be of virtually any size and it had to be user-editable through the web page.
I took the javascript referenced above and made some minor changes.
inline on the textarea
then the javascript functions
The biggest drawback is that you have to define a cols property on the textarea. I'd recently been using style='width: 100%;' to just make it automatically resize to the area it's in, but that doesn't work here. Still, it's very handy.