How do I disable the resizable property of a textarea?

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March 8, 2011 at 11:15 am #9092

David Hoang
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I want to disable the resizable property of a textarea.

Currently, I can resize a textarea by clicking on the bottom right corner of the textarea and dragging the mouse. How can I disable this?

March 8, 2011 at 11:17 am #9114
David Hoang
Keymaster
The following CSS rule disables resizing behavior for textarea elements:
```
textarea {
  resize: none;
}
```
To disable it for some (but not all) textareas, there are a couple of options.

You can use class attribute in your tag(<textarea class="textarea1">):
```
.textarea1 {
  resize: none;
}
```
To disable a specific textarea with the name attribute set to foo (i.e., <textarea name="foo"></textarea>):
```
textarea[name=foo] {
  resize: none;
}
```
Or, using an id attribute (i.e., <textarea id="foo"></textarea>):
```
#foo {
  resize: none;
}
```
The W3C page lists possible values for resizing restrictions: none, both, horizontal, vertical, and inherit:
```
textarea {
  resize: vertical; /* user can resize vertically, but width is fixed */
}
```
Review a decent compatibility page to see what browsers currently support this feature. As Jon Hulka has commented, the dimensions can be further restrained in CSS using max-width, max-height, min-width, and min-height.

Super important to know:

This property does nothing unless the overflow property is something other than visible, which is the default for most elements. So generally to use this, you’ll have to set something like overflow: scroll;

Quote by Sara Cope,
http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/r/resize/
March 8, 2011 at 11:17 am #9113
David Hoang
Keymaster
In CSS:
```
textarea {
  resize: none;
}
```
March 8, 2011 at 11:35 am #9111
David Hoang
Keymaster
CSS 3 has a new property for UI elements that will allow you to do this. The property is the resize property. So you would add the following to your stylesheet to disable resizing of all textarea elements:
```
textarea { resize: none; }
```
This is a CSS 3 property; use a compatibility chart to see browser compatibility.

Personally, I would find it very annoying to have resizing disabled on textarea elements. This is one of those situations where the designer is trying to “break” the user’s client. If your design can’t accommodate a larger textarea, you might want to reconsider how your design works. Any user can add textarea { resize: both !important; } to their user stylesheet to override your preference.
December 28, 2012 at 3:58 am #9112
David Hoang
Keymaster
I found two things:

First
```
textarea{resize: none}
```
This is a CSSÂ 3, which is not released yet, compatible with Firefox 4 (and later), Chrome, and Safari.

Another format feature is to overflow: auto to get rid of the right scrollbar, taking into account the dir attribute.

Code and different browsers

Basic HTML
```
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <textarea style="overflow:auto;resize:none" rows="13" cols="20"></textarea>
</body>
</html>
```
Some browsers
- InternetÂ ExplorerÂ 8
- Firefox 17.0.1
- Chrome
November 6, 2013 at 4:19 am #9110
David Hoang
Keymaster
```
<textarea style="resize:none" rows="10" placeholder="Enter Text" ></textarea>
```
February 4, 2014 at 2:07 am #9094
David Hoang
Keymaster
Adding !important makes it work:
```
width:325px !important; height:120px !important; outline:none !important;
```
outline is just to avoid the blue outline on certain browsers.
February 12, 2015 at 7:14 am #9109
David Hoang
Keymaster
If you need deep support, you can use an old school technique:
```
textarea {
    max-width: /* desired fixed width */ px;
    min-width: /* desired fixed width */ px;
    min-height: /* desired fixed height */ px;
    max-height: /* desired fixed height */ px;
    resize: none; /* If you wnt to hide the handle in the lower right corner */;
}
```
July 21, 2015 at 12:18 pm #9108
David Hoang
Keymaster
This can be done in HTML easily:
```
<textarea name="textinput" draggable="false"></textarea>
```
This works for me. The default value is true for the draggable attribute.
October 31, 2015 at 6:26 am #9099
David Hoang
Keymaster
CSS 3 can solve this problem. Unfortunately it’s only supported on 60% of used browsers nowadays.

For Internet Explorer and iOS you can’t turn off resizing, but you can limit the textarea dimension by setting its width and height.
```
/* One can also turn on/off specific axis. Defaults to both on. */
textarea { resize:vertical; } /* none|horizontal|vertical|both */
```
See Demo
June 12, 2016 at 5:43 am #9103
David Hoang
Keymaster
To disable the resize property, use the following CSS property:
```
resize: none;
```
- You can either apply this as an inline style property like so:
```
<textarea style="resize: none;"></textarea>
```
- or in between <style>...</style> element tags like so:
```
textarea {
    resize: none;
}
```
October 25, 2016 at 3:19 am #9100
David Hoang
Keymaster
To disable resize for all textareas:
```
textarea {
    resize: none;
}
```
To disable resize for a specific textarea, add an attribute, name, or an id and set it to something. In this case, it is named noresize

HTML
```
<textarea name='noresize' id='noresize'> </textarea>
```
CSS
```
/* Using the attribute name */
textarea[name=noresize] {
    resize: none;
}
/* Or using the id */

#noresize {
    resize: none;
}
```
December 15, 2016 at 3:08 am #9096
David Hoang
Keymaster
You can try with jQuery also
```
$('textarea').css("resize", "none");
```
June 1, 2017 at 8:11 am #9107
David Hoang
Keymaster
You simply use: resize: none; in your CSS.

The resize property specifies whether or not an element is resizable
by the user.

Note: The resize property applies to elements whose computed overflow
value is something other than "visible".

Also resize not supported in InternetÂ Explorer at the moment.

Here are different properties for resize:

No Resize:
```
textarea {
    resize: none;
}
```
Resize both ways (vertically & horizontally):
```
textarea {
  resize: both;
}
```
Resize vertically:
```
textarea {
  resize: vertical;
}
```
Resize horizontally:
```
textarea {
  resize: horizontal;
}
```
Also if you have width and height in your CSS or HTML, it will prevent your textarea be resized, with a broader browsers support.
May 28, 2018 at 2:09 am #9104
David Hoang
Keymaster
You can simply disable the textarea property like this:
```
textarea {
    resize: none;
}
```
To disable vertical or horizontal resizing, use
```
resize: vertical;
```
or
```
resize: horizontal;
```
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