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At least show us your code and what you've tried so far. It's probably as simple as giving max. values to the textarea.</span> – <a href="../../users/3153338/goombah" title="2,835 reputation" class="comment-user ">Goombah</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69518740_41158790"><span title="2016-12-15T07:42:10.267 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 07:42</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-69518851" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="69518851" data-comment-owner-id="6008014" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment69518851_41158790"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Possible duplicate of [How to disable resizable property of textarea?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5235142/how-to-disable-resizable-property-of-textarea)</span> – <a href="../../users/6008014/punit" title="1,917 reputation" class="comment-user ">Punit</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69518851_41158790"><span title="2016-12-15T07:46:15.117 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 07:46</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-69518876" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="69518876" data-comment-owner-id="2236219" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment69518876_41158790"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Possible duplicate of [How can I prevent the textarea from stretching beyond his parent DIV element? (google-chrome issue only)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3899463/how-can-i-prevent-the-textarea-from-stretching-beyond-his-parent-div-element-g)</span> – <a href="../../users/2236219/manwal" title="23,450 reputation" class="comment-user ">Manwal</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69518876_41158790"><span title="2016-12-15T07:46:49.290 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 07:46</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> <li id="comment-69519198" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="69519198" data-comment-owner-id="6846929" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment69519198_41158790"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">@Goombah I don't have demo code in hand, but I added image link which is the screenshort.</span> – <a href="../../users/6846929/david-liu" title="299 reputation" class="comment-user owner">David LIu</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69519198_41158790"><span title="2016-12-15T07:57:35.253 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 07:57</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="answers"> <a name="tab-top"></a> <div id="answers-header"> <div class="answers-subheader grid ai-center mb8"> <div class="grid--cell fl1"> <h2 class="mb0" data-answercount="9">2 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">2</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <a name="41158897"></a> <div id="answer-41158897" class="answer " data-answerid="41158897" data-ownerid="" data-score="5" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="41158897"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="5">5</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><pre><code>textarea { resize: none; } </code></pre> <p>Hope this will help you</p> <p>Besides,</p> <pre><code>textarea { resize: vertical; } textarea { resize: horizontal; } </code></pre> <p>This codes will allow you to resize only vertically or only horizontal.</p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-carddeleted"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Dec 15 '16 at 07:45">answered Dec 15 '16 at 07:45</time> <div class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> </div> <div class="s-user-card--info"></div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-41158897" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="41158897" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-69519122" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="69519122" data-comment-owner-id="6846929" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score 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class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment69519165_41158897"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Also add max-width,max-height to restrict the dimensions, if you want user to resize</span> – <a href="../../users/561429/rohan210" title="825 reputation" class="comment-user ">Rohan210</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69519165_41158897"><span title="2016-12-15T07:56:42.327 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 07:56</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <a name="41158870"></a> <div id="answer-41158870" class="answer " data-answerid="41158870" data-ownerid="7289067" data-score="4" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="41158870"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="4">4</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>Set max width 100% like following:</p> <p>textarea { max-width:100%;}</p></div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="answered Dec 15 '16 at 07:44">answered Dec 15 '16 at 07:44</time> <a href="../../users/7289067/hanif" 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I also found this in the post recommend in top.</span> – <a href="../../users/6846929/david-liu" title="299 reputation" class="comment-user owner">David LIu</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/41158790/how-to-limit-the-draggable-width-of-a-textarea#comment69519624_41158870"><span title="2016-12-15T08:11:37.443 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Dec 15 '16 at 08:11</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>