feat(control-ui): auto-expand chat input textarea

The chat input textarea now automatically expands as you type multiple
lines, up to a maximum height of 200px. This improves the user experience
when composing longer messages.

Changes:
- Use CSS field-sizing: content for modern browsers (Chrome 123+, Firefox 131+)
- Add JavaScript fallback with autoResizeTextarea() for older browsers
- Disable manual resize since auto-expand handles it
- Reset height when input is cleared (after sending)

The textarea will:
- Start at minimum height (40px) when empty
- Grow automatically as content is added
- Cap at max-height (200px) with overflow scroll
- Shrink back when content is removed
This commit is contained in:
Borahm Cho 2026-01-26 09:12:00 +01:00
parent 6859e1e6a6
commit 1572183b61
2 changed files with 26 additions and 5 deletions

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@ -245,16 +245,18 @@
/* Override .field textarea min-height (180px) from components.css */
.chat-compose .chat-compose__field textarea {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
min-height: 40px;
max-height: 150px;
max-height: 200px;
padding: 9px 12px;
border-radius: 8px;
resize: vertical;
resize: none; /* Disable manual resize since we auto-expand */
white-space: pre-wrap;
font-family: var(--font-body);
font-size: 14px;
line-height: 1.45;
overflow-y: auto;
box-sizing: border-box;
field-sizing: content; /* Modern CSS auto-sizing (Chrome 123+, Firefox 131+) */
}
.chat-compose__field textarea:disabled {

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@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
import { html, nothing } from "lit";
import { repeat } from "lit/directives/repeat.js";
import { ref } from "lit/directives/ref.js";
import type { SessionsListResult } from "../types";
import type { ChatAttachment, ChatQueueItem } from "../ui-types";
import type { ChatItem, MessageGroup } from "../types/chat-types";
@ -102,6 +103,18 @@ function generateAttachmentId(): string {
return `att-${Date.now()}-${Math.random().toString(36).slice(2, 9)}`;
}
function autoResizeTextarea(textarea: HTMLTextAreaElement) {
// If empty, reset to default height
if (!textarea.value) {
textarea.style.height = "";
return;
}
// Reset height to auto to get the correct scrollHeight
textarea.style.height = "auto";
// Set height to scrollHeight (capped by max-height in CSS)
textarea.style.height = `${textarea.scrollHeight}px`;
}
function handlePaste(
e: ClipboardEvent,
props: ChatProps,
@ -327,6 +340,9 @@ export function renderChat(props: ChatProps) {
<label class="field chat-compose__field">
<span>Message</span>
<textarea
${ref((el) => {
if (el) autoResizeTextarea(el as HTMLTextAreaElement);
})}
.value=${props.draft}
?disabled=${!props.connected}
@keydown=${(e: KeyboardEvent) => {
@ -337,8 +353,11 @@ export function renderChat(props: ChatProps) {
e.preventDefault();
if (canCompose) props.onSend();
}}
@input=${(e: Event) =>
props.onDraftChange((e.target as HTMLTextAreaElement).value)}
@input=${(e: Event) => {
const textarea = e.target as HTMLTextAreaElement;
props.onDraftChange(textarea.value);
autoResizeTextarea(textarea);
}}
@paste=${(e: ClipboardEvent) => handlePaste(e, props)}
placeholder=${composePlaceholder}
></textarea>