Implementing Auto-Resizing TextArea with Prototype

To enhance the user experience in your internal sales application, consider adding auto-resizing functionality to the textarea used for delivery address. Here's a detailed guide on achieving this:

The goal is to create a textarea that dynamically adjusts its height to accommodate the text input, ensuring optimal space utilization and readability. To do so, we'll leverage Prototype, a JavaScript framework.

First, add the necessary JavaScript code to your page:

resizeIt = function() {
  var str = $('iso_address').value;
  var cols = $('iso_address').cols;
  var linecount = 0;

  $A(str.split("\n")).each(function(l) {
    linecount  = 1   Math.floor(l.length / cols); // Consider long lines
  })

  $('iso_address').rows = linecount;
};

This code calculates the number of lines of text in the textarea based on the character count, column width, and line breaks. The resulting value is assigned to the "rows" property of the textarea, effectively resizing it.

To activate the auto-resizing, attach the resizeIt function to an appropriate event. For example, you could use keyup to capture text input changes:

Event.observe('iso_address', 'keyup', resizeIt);

When the textarea first loads, call the resizeIt function to initialize the height:

resizeIt();

With this implementation, the textarea will automatically adjust its height as the user types, optimizing the form's vertical space and ensuring the address information is presented in a readable manner.