jQuery Textarea Expander Plugin

Ok, I love Ballpark, but the thing that I’d have to say annoys me the most (aside from no time tracking) is the fact that line item descrption fields are so small.

So instead of just complaining more, I took a few minutes and put together a simple solution, a jQuery plugin anyone can implement when the page layout simply isn’t designed for a large textarea box, but one is neccessary.

Essentially, it just creates a new textarea that floats on top of the selected one on focus. Pretty novel, but hopefully some people can make use of this… Ballpark? Please?

You can find Textarea Expander on Github.

Demo

Sample Usage

Load the jQuery library, included style.css and then on document load run the following.