# Resize font in textarea

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resize-font-in-textarea/187691
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [May 1, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resize-font-in-textarea/187691 "2006-05-01T16:07:29Z")
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### Author: ![rgloverd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ed655f/32.png) [@rgloverd](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/rgloverd)
#### Post date: [May 1, 2006, 4:07pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/resize-font-in-textarea/187691/1 "2006-05-01T16:07:29Z")

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Hi,  
I have a text area and the text is read from an xml file. I want the text to fill the text area in the largest font possible. In other words if there are only 2 words the font size will be large but if there are say 20 words then it would be alot smaller,  
Thanks,  
Richard