[Component amendment]: <Multi-line text field>

[ninarojc1]

Component/pattern to amend

Multi-line text field

Visual

(https://vanillaframework.io/docs/base/forms)

Context

Currently the multi line text field allows dragging the corner to adjust the height and width of the text field. It relies on individual implementations to decide if the vertical and horizontal resizing should be allowed. Horizontal dragging many times breaks the UI and the vertical is easily missed. A lot of times we end up with a small height of the box, which makes it hard for users to scroll within a small available space to see what they wrote.

My proposal is that we enlarge the vertical height as the user types their text, so that the text field automatically grows with height together with text. Fort certain use cases there might be a need to still define the max height of the text field.

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The internal ticket has been created: https://warthogs.atlassian.net/browse/WD-31878.

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[dgtlntv]

Design system contribution meeting:

• We agree that the manual resizing a user can do should in almost all cases be restricted to be only vertical (as resizing horizontally usually breaks layouts).
• We agree that vertical resizing should happen automatically as the user types (there is a CSS property that can be used for this)
• In some cases we might still need to define a max-height.