Textarea Tricks | CSS-Tricks
This article collects nine practical tips for styling and enhancing textarea elements with CSS and jQuery, ranging from visual tweaks like background images and removing the focus glow to functional improvements like auto-resizing textareas to fit their content and adding cross-browser placeholder text. It demonstrates solutions to common textarea quirks across different browsers, such as removing unwanted scrollbars in Internet Explorer or the resize handle in WebKit browsers, along with code examples for each technique.