Auto expanding textarea

Question

When a textarea has more text in it than can be shown it will display scroll bars. How can I make it so that the textarea will expand itself when it has more text than it can display. My goal is never to have scroll bars appear. A jQuery solution is preferred.

Answer 1

Here is a working example:

http://blogs.sitepointstatic.com/examples/tech/textarea-expander/index.html

It contains downloadable code as well as implementation instructions.