660384 - Text area: a handle to resize just the height

Status: NEW

(Core :: Layout: Form Controls, enhancement)

Description

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Now Firefox makes the text area resizable, like Chrome and Safari. Great.
It does so by providing a draggable corner that can resize width and height.

Usually, like for the text area I am presently typing in, I just want to increase the height. So I move the corner vertically. But my mouse does not move along a straight rail. So the width changes too. And that changes the visible line length, so that **** up the line setting, in particular the "> " quotation characters...

So I would greatly appreciate to have a handle on the bottom edge of the text area, that change only the height. Like this:
http://steve918.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/picture-4.png
I used that in some Web browser - maybe that was constructed by the Web site -, and that was very nice.

Thanks,

Nicolas Barbulesco


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Actual Results:  
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Expected Results:  
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Firefox 4.0.1 Windows.

Comment 1

[:aceman]

Confirming feature request.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Note that you _always_ want to do this (which it doesn't sound like you do), you could simply put "textarea { resize: vertical; }" in your user stylesheet...

Comment 3

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

(In reply to comment #0)

> so that **** up the line setting

I mean: so that "f u c k s u p" the line setting.

In the reply text area I still see the verb I had written, but when not logged in I see stars instead in the bug page.

Censorship scissors, go to Hell!

Comment 4

[Mounir Lamouri (:mounir)]

If you decrease the width of a textarea, as a user, it might be annoying but if you increase it, I do not understand how could that be a problem. We can't forbid users to change the width of a textarea and it seems quite hard to have a discreet and simple UI allowing to resize each dimensions separately or at the same time.

As an author, in comment 2, Boris told you what can be done.

Comment 5

[Norman Paschke]

this should be marked as wontfix, since resize:vertical is the way to go

Comment 6

[Nicolas Barbulesco]

Except that :
1/ This workaround requires modifying my user stylesheet.
2/ This workaround suppresses the ability to resize horizontally.

I have an idea :
Let's lock the resizing to one dimension - vertical or horizontal - while I am dragging the handle with Shift. Like in the drawing applications.