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Textarea Component: Add default resize vertical rule#71736

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What?

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Add a default resize: vertical rule to the textarea component.

Why?

Currently within Gutenberg / the block editor, there's a default resize: vertical rule supplied by WordPress' forms.css file. So, for example, when we use the TextareaControl component within the Image block for alt text, the resize is restricted to vertical only:

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However, for folks using the component outside of the block editor (or WordPress) context, this rule might not always be present. A good example is when we use DataForm's textarea control within Storybook, where the story examples for textareas can be resized horizontally, which is unexpected.

So, if we update the component to provide this default, we can ensure that consumers using textarea either via the component, or DataForm, have a more reliable default to work from.

How?

  • One-line code change to include a default resize: vertical rule with the TextareaControl component.

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2025-09-19.10.22.16.mp4

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2025-09-19.10.22.45.mp4

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This makes sense to me. Though if we wanted to scope the change to just DataForm controls we could also configure it there.

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Oh, so it was already set in forms.css! That makes sense, because when I first noticed it was allowing horizontal resize in the Storybook, I was wondering why this never surfaced as a problem in Gutenberg 😂

More reason to deem these component styles safe to update! Thanks.

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andrewserong commented Sep 21, 2025

Thanks for the reviews, folks!

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