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Neil Jenkins
Neil Jenkins works for Opera Software, where he leads the UX design and front-end engineering for My Opera Mail. When not coding he can often be found singing, hiking through remote mountains, or quite possibly both.
Entries by Neil Jenkins
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Expanding Text Areas Made Elegant
An expanding text area is a multi-line text input field that expands in height to fit its contents. Commonly found in both desktop and mobile applications, such as the SMS composition field on the iPhone, it’s a good choice when you don’t know how much text the user will write and you want to keep the layout compact; as such, it’s especially useful on interfaces targeted at smartphones. Yet despite the ubiquity of this control, there’s no way to create it using only HTML and CSS, and most JavaScript solutions have suffered from guesswork, inaccuracy, or a lack of elegance "¦ until now.
