# Help with resizing textArea component : Text getting streched
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [July 6, 2004, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615 "2004-07-06T04:35:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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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/56615/1 "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 6, 2004, 5:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/2 "2004-07-06T05:51:44Z")
how did you resize the textarea?
if with the transform tools, remove, put a new one, and resize with property inspector only (width & height values).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 6:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/3 "2004-07-06T06:00:41Z")
> [@eyezberg](#):
>
> how did you resize the textarea?
> if with the transform tools, remove, put a new one, and resize with property inspector only (width & height values).
I think he’s resizing dynamically at runtime, eyez. 😉
I personally don’t know the solution to your problem… Is there a “rows” or “cols” property associated with the component?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 2:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/4 "2004-07-06T14:51:42Z")
yeah I am resizing at runtime… as the this.\_height = something suggests. I have looked at various properties in the actionscript dictionary but couldn’t find any that helped me =( … I mean if I set a style, it should change right???
HELP :crying:
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 3:36pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/5 "2004-07-06T15:36:10Z")
Is there a specific reason you are using the text area component instead of just and dynamic textfield. The component has all the properties applied to it as though the text is a picture, thus the streching, it doesn’t apply the \_width/\_height properties to the bounding box as a regular textfield would.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 3:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/6 "2004-07-06T15:59:44Z")
I am using a textarea because I need the CSS functionality… I didn’t think the regular textbox would support CSS (or images for that matter).
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 7:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/7 "2004-07-06T19:04:09Z")
anyone? :-/
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 8:25pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/8 "2004-07-06T20:25:54Z")
Hmm, can you dynamically create a Textarea component at runtime?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 9:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/9 "2004-07-06T21:14:08Z")
Not sure about css I’ll have to check but I know pictures are supported…
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 6, 2004, 9:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/help-with-resizing-textarea-component-text-getting-streched/56615/10 "2004-07-06T21:47:16Z")
Thanks for the tip Gwing… never crossed my mind.
Flash being as awesome as it is, it does allow you to create instances of components at runtime :cool:
You just have to drop the component in your movie’s libary and do something like this:
```auto
import mx.controls.TextArea;
createClassObject(TextArea,"_message",10,{_height:200,text:"blah blah"});
```
kinda interesting… a lot of software is moving towards the whole import and packages deal… good stuff 😃
CHEERS,
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/56615/11 "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/56615/12 "2004-07-07T16:48:01Z")
could also try to use the textfield.autoSize feature… 😉
works fine