is there a way to get a textarea to stretch to fit its content without using php or javascript?

Question

i am filling a textarea with content for the user to edit.

is it possible to make it stretch to fit content with css (like overflow:show for a div)?

thanks :)

Answer 1

Not really. This is normally done using javascript.

there is a good discussion of ways of doing this here...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7477/autosizing-textarea

Answer 2

No, it is impossible.