Firefox users can easily enlarge text areas in web forms by following these steps:
- Open the web form in Firefox.
- Click on the text area that you want to enlarge.
- On the toolbar, click on the “Text Area” button ( ).
- In the “Text Area” dialog box, select the “Expand” option.
- The text area will now be enlarged to its maximum size. ..
Before
As an example of a fixed area text box, we decided to take a quick look at the comment forms here at the How-To Geek website.
The text area before installing the extension…
Setup & Installation
All that you will need to do is install the extension and you are ready to start enjoying that custom sized text area goodness. There are no options or modifications to worry about.
Textarea++ in Action
Just for fun we grabbed onto the empty text area and gave it a quick “stretch”… You can make the text area as large as you need to before you start writing!
Here is what the scrollbar function will look like on those text areas if you are not wanting to stretch the text area out…
Note: The How-To Geek website’s comment forms do have a built in scrollbar function but the forms on many other websites do not.
Have a lot that you want to write and be able to clearly see at the same time? Not a problem! You can really stretch that text area out and enjoy scrollbar goodness too. Feel free to write to your heart’s content!
Conclusion
If you have been frustrated with under-sized text areas in web forms, then Textarea++ will definitely bring much needed relief to your browsing experience.
Links
Download the Textarea++ extension (Mozilla Add-ons-Discontinued]
