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Is there a plugin that would allow me to convert plain textarea to a stretchable one, just like Chrome does.

A: 

There's a plugin called TextAreaResizer, see if it offers everything you're looking for.

It's only vertical, but it's the most cross-browser stable thing I've seen. Here's a link right to the demo

Nick Craver
+2  A: 

Do you mean the Resizable plugin?

Matthew Jones
This works very well. The other alternative is to do a facebook-style (self.shudder()) textarea that grows as needed.
scunliffe
Can't get the textarea to resize at all with this plugin. Div around it grows but text area does not.
epitka
+1  A: 

See http://jqueryui.com/demos/resizable/#textarea

There's also TextAreaResizer, but the demos only show vertical resizing so I'm not sure if it supports diagonal resizing.

Andy E