Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Textarea element
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 11 years (2014–2024), in 3 threads.
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Textarea can't autoresize, be styled or handle IDE-like inputUnreviewed
20142026- Textarea silently refuses input at the limit with no counter shown beforehand2024-05-07
- Editing text in a textarea is a horrible and frustrating experience2016-02-02
- Textarea can't autoresize, be styled, or handle input like an IDE, forcing hacky workarounds2014-11-25
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.