determine textarea rows

[vietboy505]

I want my textarea box to not to have scrollbars. So depends on how long the message is, it will determine the rows. How would I do that, count the character in $message?

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<textarea value="<?php echo $message; ?>" rows="<?php ?>" cols="20">
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[shocker-z]

dont think this is the best way but you could do:

[code]
$msg=explode("\n",$message");
$lines=count($msg);

and the user rows="<?php echo $lines; ?>"
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as far as i can think that should work but only work by line not for long lines which will then be wrapped..

[keeB]

Whats the point of using a textarea if you don't want to conserve space and use scrollbars? Doesn't make much sense..