How to set textarea to 100% width and height?

Question

How can i set a <textarea> to consume 100% width and height of the browser window?

For example, the following does not work:

html, body, textarea {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}

<textarea>Text goes here</textarea>

jsFiddle

Because it consumes slightly over 100% of the window, causing a scrollbar to appear:

How do i make a <textarea> consume 100% of the space?

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Answer 1

This will work. or just add display:block to textarea in your fiddle.

html, body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}

textarea {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100vh;
  display: block;
 }

<textarea placeholder="message"></textarea>

Answer 2

The issue is the common white space issue of inline-block/inline element due to vertical alignment. If you check dev tools of google you will see this:

So to fix it you simply need to adjust vertical alignment or make the textarea a block element (like provided in the other answers):

html, body, textarea {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}
textarea {
 vertical-align:top;
}

<textarea>Text goes here</textarea>

Answer 3

html, body {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
}
textarea {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  display:block;
  resize:none;/*Add this if you dont want users to resize */
}

<textarea>Text goes here</textarea>

Answer 4

Just remove width and height for html and body tag.

Thank me later