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by michananya
HTML
<h2>HTML Table</h2>
<table>
<tr>
<th>Company</th>
<th>Contact</th>
<th>Country</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>
<div class="grow-wrap">
<textarea name="text" id="text" onInput="this.parentNode.dataset.replicatedValue = this.value"></textarea>
</div>
</td>
<td>Maria Anders</td>
<td>Germany</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Centro comercial Moctezuma</td>
<td>Francisco Chang</td>
<td>Mexico</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td><input type="text" id="fname" name="fname"></td>
<td>Roland Mendel</td>
<td>Austria</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Island Trading</td>
<td>Helen Bennett</td>
<td>UK</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Laughing Bacchus Winecellars</td>
<td>Yoshi Tannamuri</td>
<td>Canada</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td>Magazzini Alimentari Riuniti</td>
<td>Giovanni Rovelli</td>
<td>Italy</td>
</tr>
</table>
CSS
table {
font-family: arial, sans-serif;
border-collapse: collapse;
width: 100%;
}
td, th {
border: 1px solid #dddddd;
text-align: left;
padding: 8px;
}
tr:nth-child(even) {
background-color: #dddddd;
}
td {
width: 33%;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
textarea {
width: 100%;
margin: -8px;
}
input {
width: calc( 100% + 16px);
margin: -8px;
padding: 0.5rem;
height: 35px;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
.grow-wrap {
/* easy way to plop the elements on top of each other and have them both sized based on the tallest one's height */
display: grid;
}
.grow-wrap::after {
/* Note the weird space! Needed to preventy jumpy behavior */
content: attr(data-replicated-value) " ";
/* This is how textarea text behaves */
white-space: pre-wrap;
/* Hidden from view, clicks, and screen readers */
visibility: hidden;
}
.grow-wrap > textarea {
/* You could leave this, but after a user resizes, then it ruins the auto sizing */
resize: vertical;
/* Firefox shows scrollbar on growth, you can hide like this. */
overflow: hidden;
}
.grow-wrap > textarea,
.grow-wrap::after {
/* Identical styling required!! */
border: 1px solid black;
padding: 0.5rem;
font: inherit;
/* Place on top of each other */
grid-area: 1 / 1 / 2 / 2;
}