InfoPath Dev

Hi,

Just wondering if anyone else has found the following and perhaps a resolution.  (Blog post with image examples here: Click)

Scenario:

An InfoPath Form created in Microsoft InfoPath Designer 2010 and is installed as an Administrator approved template.

• Form Control: Text Box

Display:

• Read-only – No
  
• Enable spelling checker – Yes
  
• Enable AutoComplete – Yes
  
• Multi-line – Yes

Size:

• Height: Auto

Compatibility Settings:

• Form Type: Web Browser Form (2010)

Issue:

• Browser: Internet Explorer 7, 8, Google Chrome

When running the Form in the web and a user types into the multi-line text box; after 20 characters the text box gets bigger by 1 row.

On evaluation using the IE8 development toolbar.  It would appear that the control is rendered as a <textarea> HTML element and JavaScript runs on the 22^nd character and adds 1 to the “rows” attribute of the <textarea> element.

For example:

123456789012345678901 – Textarea row = 1

1234567890123456789012 – Textarea row = 2

This is regardless of the width of the Text Box (Multi-line) control on the InfoPath form.

• Browser: Firefox 3.6.10

A different issue occurs on the same control in the same scenario within Firefox.

When typing a paragraph until the end of the textbox size, the <textarea> element does not auto expand until the user presses return.

Thanks for posting the bug report. We haven't seen this so we don't know of a workaround. Good luck and let us know if you figure it out.

Just to let everyone know, we submitted this to Microsoft and the hotfix is now released as part of the SharePoint 2010 April 2011 CU - http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516485