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  1. 01Tailwind Floating Label Input
  2. 02Tailwind Underline Sweep Input
  3. 03Tailwind Neon Glow Input
  4. 04Tailwind Frosted Glass Input
  5. 05Tailwind Notched Outline Input
  6. 06Tailwind Drawn Border Input
  7. 07Tailwind Inline Validation Input
  8. 08Tailwind Search Input With Clear
  9. 09Tailwind Password Strength Meter
  10. 10Tailwind OTP Code Input
  11. 11Tailwind Rotating Placeholder Input
  12. 12Tailwind Tag Chip Input
  13. 13Tailwind Phone Input With Country
  14. 14Tailwind Stepper Number Input
  15. 15Tailwind File Drop Zone
  16. 16Tailwind Currency Input
  17. 17Tailwind Native Date Input
  18. 18Tailwind Time Range Input
  19. 19Tailwind Colour Picker Input
  20. 20Tailwind Voice Search Input
  21. 21Tailwind Email Suggestion Combobox
  22. 22Tailwind Auto-Grow Textarea
  23. 23Tailwind Inline Edit Field
  24. 24Tailwind Range Slider
  25. 25Tailwind URL Input With Protocol
  26. 26Tailwind Credit Card Input
  27. 27Tailwind Password Toggle Input
  28. 28Tailwind Brutalist Input
Pure TailwindMIT licensed

Tailwind Auto-Grow Textarea

A textarea that grows with its content and shrinks back — one utility, field-sizing-content, replacing the ResizeObserver-and-hidden-mirror dance every form library used to ship.

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The code

<div class="tif-22 grid min-h-svh w-full place-items-center bg-tif22-bg px-6 py-14 font-tif22-sans" aria-label="Auto-grow textarea demo">
  <label class="grid w-full max-w-80 gap-1.5">
    <span class="font-tif22-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.12em] text-tif22-mut uppercase">Notes</span>
    <textarea name="tif22-notes" rows="2" placeholder="Type as much as you need…"
      class="field-sizing-content max-h-60 min-h-16 w-full resize-none overflow-y-auto rounded-[10px] border border-white/12 bg-tif22-field px-3.5 py-3 text-sm font-medium leading-relaxed text-tif22-ink outline-none transition-[border-color,background-color] duration-200 placeholder:text-tif22-mut focus:border-tif22-acc focus:bg-tif22-field2"></textarea>
    <span class="text-[11px] text-tif22-mut">Field grows as you type</span>
  </label>
</div>
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tif22-bg: #12121a;
  --color-tif22-bg: oklch(0.19 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field: #1a1a22;
  --color-tif22-field: oklch(0.23 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field2: #1f1f2a;
  --color-tif22-field2: oklch(0.26 0.018 285);
  --color-tif22-ink: #f0eeff;
  --color-tif22-ink: oklch(0.95 0.02 290);
  --color-tif22-mut: #b8b6d4;
  --color-tif22-mut: oklch(0.77 0.03 290);
  --color-tif22-acc: #a78bfa;
  --color-tif22-acc: oklch(0.74 0.15 295);
  --font-tif22-sans: 'Plus Jakarta Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tif22-mono: 'JetBrains Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tif-22 {
  width: 100%;
}

.tif-22 ::selection {
  background: var(--color-tif22-acc);
  color: #12121a;
}

Setup — do this once per project

Skip this if your project already runs Tailwind v4.

1Load Tailwind
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4"></script>

Compiles in the browser — perfect for a CodePen or a quick test, not for production.

2Add the stylesheetRequiredthe @theme block is what makes the custom utilities exist
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tif22-bg: #12121a;
  --color-tif22-bg: oklch(0.19 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field: #1a1a22;
  --color-tif22-field: oklch(0.23 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field2: #1f1f2a;
  --color-tif22-field2: oklch(0.26 0.018 285);
  --color-tif22-ink: #f0eeff;
  --color-tif22-ink: oklch(0.95 0.02 290);
  --color-tif22-mut: #b8b6d4;
  --color-tif22-mut: oklch(0.77 0.03 290);
  --color-tif22-acc: #a78bfa;
  --color-tif22-acc: oklch(0.74 0.15 295);
  --font-tif22-sans: 'Plus Jakarta Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tif22-mono: 'JetBrains Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tif-22 {
  width: 100%;
}

.tif-22 ::selection {
  background: var(--color-tif22-acc);
  color: #12121a;
}
3Fonts used by this demooptional — skip if you have your own type stack
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com">
<link rel="preconnect" href="https://fonts.gstatic.com" crossorigin>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css2?family=JetBrains+Mono:wght@400;500;700&family=Plus+Jakarta+Sans:wght@400;500;600&display=swap">

What changed in the port

Which parts became utilities, which stayed CSS, and why.

  • field-sizing: content has a first-class utility in v4 — the port is shorter than the original stylesheet by about thirty lines.
  • A max-h-60 ceiling was added; the CSS original mentions it only as a customisation, and without it a long paste is a layout bug.
  • Everything else — padding, radius, focus tint — is the same vocabulary as every other field here, which is the argument for utilities in one sentence.
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Demo: Tailwind Auto-Grow Textarea
Source: https://codefronts.com/components/tailwind-css-input-fields/tailwind-auto-grow-textarea/

A textarea that grows with its content and shrinks back — one utility, field-sizing-content, replacing the ResizeObserver-and-hidden-mirror dance every form library used to ship.
## HTML
```html
<div class="tif-22 grid min-h-svh w-full place-items-center bg-tif22-bg px-6 py-14 font-tif22-sans" aria-label="Auto-grow textarea demo">
  <label class="grid w-full max-w-80 gap-1.5">
    <span class="font-tif22-mono text-[10px] tracking-[0.12em] text-tif22-mut uppercase">Notes</span>
    <textarea name="tif22-notes" rows="2" placeholder="Type as much as you need…"
      class="field-sizing-content max-h-60 min-h-16 w-full resize-none overflow-y-auto rounded-[10px] border border-white/12 bg-tif22-field px-3.5 py-3 text-sm font-medium leading-relaxed text-tif22-ink outline-none transition-[border-color,background-color] duration-200 placeholder:text-tif22-mut focus:border-tif22-acc focus:bg-tif22-field2"></textarea>
    <span class="text-[11px] text-tif22-mut">Field grows as you type</span>
  </label>
</div>
```
## CSS
```css
@import "tailwindcss";

@theme {
  --color-tif22-bg: #12121a;
  --color-tif22-bg: oklch(0.19 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field: #1a1a22;
  --color-tif22-field: oklch(0.23 0.015 285);
  --color-tif22-field2: #1f1f2a;
  --color-tif22-field2: oklch(0.26 0.018 285);
  --color-tif22-ink: #f0eeff;
  --color-tif22-ink: oklch(0.95 0.02 290);
  --color-tif22-mut: #b8b6d4;
  --color-tif22-mut: oklch(0.77 0.03 290);
  --color-tif22-acc: #a78bfa;
  --color-tif22-acc: oklch(0.74 0.15 295);
  --font-tif22-sans: 'Plus Jakarta Sans', system-ui, sans-serif;
  --font-tif22-mono: 'JetBrains Mono', ui-monospace, monospace;
}

.tif-22 {
  width: 100%;
}

.tif-22 ::selection {
  background: var(--color-tif22-acc);
  color: #12121a;
}
```

How this works

One declaration, whole feature. field-sizing: content tells the browser to size the box to its text instead of the rows attribute:

class="field-sizing-content min-h-16 max-h-60 resize-none overflow-y-auto"

Bounds are still yours. The property takes only content or fixed, so a floor and a ceiling are ordinary min-h-*/max-h-* — without the ceiling a long paste pushes your submit button off the screen.

Make it yours

  • Ceiling: max-h-60, paired with overflow-y-auto so long input scrolls.
  • Resting size: min-h-16 or the rows attribute — both act as a floor.
  • Accent: --color-tif22-acc on focus.
  • Rhythm: leading-relaxed gives each new line more room to arrive into.

Gotchas — read before shipping

  • Chrome 123+, Safari 26+, Firefox 137+. Older browsers sit at rows=&quot;2&quot; — a graceful fallback, but not auto-grow.
  • Growth shifts everything below it. Put the textarea in a grid or flex container that tolerates height changes.
  • resize-none removes the manual grip; if support is missing, the user now has neither growth nor a grip. Keep rows generous.

Browser support

ChromeSafariFirefoxEdge
123+26+137+123+

field-sizing is newly Baseline-ish; below these versions the textarea is a normal fixed-rows field.

Techniques used in this demo

Utilitiesfirst-class utility or variant

field-sizingtw ↗transitionstw ↗

Theme tokensset in @theme, used by a utility

oklch()tw ↗

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