# Help with resizing textArea component : Text getting streched
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/115166
**Category:** Uncategorized
**Created:** [July 6, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/115166 "2004-07-06T04:35:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@adityagaddam](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/adityagaddam)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/115166/1 "2004-07-06T04:35:56Z")
Hey guys,
I am currently working on a client’s website. I need some help though.
Problem:
I have a textarea component. This textarea will have text loaded dynamically, so bascially I dont know what the maxVPosition is until runtime. I tried to resize the textarea so that the text doesn’t have to scroll, but this makes the font strech too… making it rather large. I have tried the following to counter this…
```auto
this._height += this.maxVPosition * (Number(font_size) + 10);
this.vScrollPolicy = "off";
font_size2 = font_size * (init_height/this._height);
this.setStyle("fontSize",Math.round(font_size2));
```
this however does not work as the font still stays huge.
Any ideas are appreciated.
Thanks
Aditya
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/115166/2 "2004-07-07T05:51:04Z")
Excellent, no problem. Glad to be of help.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 7, 2004, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/115166/3 "2004-07-07T16:48:01Z")
could also try to use the textfield.autoSize feature… 😉
works fine