As promised, here is a screencast that shows the implementation of an expanding text area within an iGoogle gadget. It's a little hokey, but still works. Scroll forward to time 7 mins or so, about 3/4 of the way in if you just want to see the textarea.
http://blog.periscopegadget.com/2008/10/24/full-gadget-tour-screencast-with-functionality-showcase/ On Sep 23, 10:26 pm, Ivan Stegic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just wanted to give an update: I was able to successfully > implementhttp://tuckey.org/textareasizer/as an expanding textarea in my > iGoogle gadget. I'll update with a screencast when able to. Thanks > much for your insight and suggestion! > > On Sep 15, 5:18 am, "Vision Jinx (Guru)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > You can check out this link >>http://tuckey.org/textareasizer/ > > > If you add the dynamic height feature lib in your gadget it will also > > adjust the gadgets height if you call it in that function. (add > > _IG_AdjustIFrameHeight();) > > > There is also a textarea wrap attribute to control the wrapping of the > > text (wrap="virtual") > > > There is also an IE only attribute and property for something similar > > > >>http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537837(VS.85).aspx > > > This only works with IE but allows other elements to be "editable" > > like a div tag that auto sizes itself if it does not have a fixed > > height. > > > <div contenteditable onkeyup="alert(this.innerText)">TESTING</div> > > > Tip! If using the script from the first link, remove the // from the > > end of the scripts //--> as this use to cause issues with gadgets a > > while back. I am not sure if it was fixed but to help prevent a > > possible issue with its use in gadget form I would remove it. > > > Hope that helps :-) > > > Cheers! > > Vision Jinx > > > On Sep 14, 10:43 pm, Ivan Stegic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > There are a number of Javascript frameworks out there, and a few of > > > them have a lib that automatically increases the size of the textarea/ > > > textbox as you type and get to the last line, a la Facebook. jQuery > > > and dojo have two implementations that I would consider implementing, > > > Yahoo! UI has one as well. Here are two links as examples, in case you > > > don't know what I'm talking about: > > > >http://dojotoolkit.org/book/dojo-book-0-9/part-2-dijit/form-validatio... > > > > I'd like to implement an expanding textarea in my google gadget. > > > Unfortunately, there is no-one out there that has already done this > > > (that I can find) and published information on how to do it again. I'd > > > gladly do that if I can figure it out myself. > > > > It's not as easy as including the jQuery or dojo libraries and using > > > them in the gadget: this proves almost impossible. > > > > My questions: > > > > 1. Is this at all possible? > > > 2. Has anyone done it? Where? > > > 3. Shouldn't I really just leverage the iGoogle framework to do this? > > > 4. Can someone point me to more info? My searches all come up junk. > > > > Thanks for any insight, > > > Ivan. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iGoogle Developer Forum" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Gadgets-API?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
