Style textarea and button - css

In a chrome extension (so feel free to make Chrome-specific suggestions), I'd like to make a textarea and a button on a single row. The textarea has a defined height (in rows). The button should be the same height as the textarea. Ideally some attribute or setting allows me to manually determine the width of the button versus the width of the textarea. Ideally this is just a css/html solution, not javascript if I can avoid it.

You will need to use flex box with
{ align-items:stretch }
Check this illustration: http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-flexbox/images/flex-align.svg

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Do not make the width of the button proportionnel to the width of the popup window

I want to make a button in a popup window as Script Lab as follows. Note that, in Script Lab, the width of the button is enough to hold the sentence in one line, even though the popup window is not very wide:
I almost use the same code as ScriptLab:
import { PrimaryButton } from 'office-ui-fabric-react/lib/Button';
... ...
return (
<div style={{ height: '100vh', display: 'flex', flexDirection: 'column'}}>
<PrimaryButton
style={{ margin: 'auto' }}
text="Open link in new window"
// tslint:disable-next-line: jsx-no-lambda
onClick={() => {
window.open(this.props.url);
}}
/>
</div>
);
Here is my result, where the width of the button is proportionnel to the width of the popup window. As a consequence, the sentence needs to be displayed in 2 rows, which is not what I want.
Does anyone know how to amend the code to get the effect like Script Lab?
Edit 1:
I have made a sandbox: https://codesandbox.io/s/relaxed-feather-i6jz6?file=/src/App.js
Now, the problem is, if we Open In New Window and open https://i6jz6.csb.app/ in a new browser tab several times, we may see a little adjustment of the font of the text in the button. Does anyone know how to avoid that?
On button width:
In order to not have the width of the button grow proportionately with the container you can enforce the width: auto on the button. This way it will only be as wide as it needs to be to contain the text. Value auto is also better than having a fixed width, because it can automatically wrap the text if the popup becomes too narrow to display the text in one line (with fixed width your button would overflow instead - which looks really bad).
On font adjustments
For the font adjustments you experience - this is a very common thing on web and it even has its own name - FOUT (Flash of Unstyled Text). It happens when you use custom fonts on the page, because these are files like any other and so they take some time to download. Browsers prefer displaying the content as early as possible (even without custom fonts loaded) to displaying the perfect content (by waiting on all resources) with some speed penalty.
The only way (at least that I know) to completely avoid FOUT is to use system fonts instead of custom fonts (github does that for example).
If that's not an option, you can minimize the FOUT by caching the fonts on client machines for long times. This way they will experience the flash briefly on the first visit, but not on subsequent ones.
You can also try to minimize the FOUT by telling the browser to try to preload the font files that will be needed for the page (part of the reason why FOUT happens is that browser discovers the fonts very late) https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Preloading_content
Set a fixed width to the button.Setting a fixed width will make it unproportional to the width of the pop-up window.
width:280px;
Second Option: If you use min-width, the button width will decrease to a point.
Third Option: If you use max-width, the button width will increase upto a point.
Fourth Option: You can also use '#media' queries to customize the width according to size of the screen.
You don't want the button's text to wrap, so you'll need to change the font size, which you can do when you find that the button's height increases when the text wraps. I suggest that you create a invisible, but not 'display: none', possibly 'off-screen' version of the button so that the real button's font is changed after you know the right size is needed. Alternatively, what about an image or glyph instead of text, and a Title for the button text?

How to make the Bing Map Autosuggest popup to be same width as the associated textbox?

In this sample, as you start typing into the textbox, a list of auto suggestions appears. I would like the width of this AutoSuggest popup to be as wide as the textbox.
But it seems that the AutoSuggest popup is set to be a certain width with no way to override it. I've tried setting the width css attribute, but it looks like the object is destroyed and rebuilt every time it pops up (or so it seems to me).
Is there a way to override the width of the AutoSuggest popup?
Paste it in your CSS and set the width as per your requirement
div#as_container {
max-width: 320px;
}
as a last resort you can listen onChange and 'correct' the width after each key press.

Is there a CSS property which acts like android XML "wrap content"?

In particular I have a GWT project with a
TextArea element which I want to conform to a set width and expand as much as needed to the bottom.
ListBox element which I want to conform to a set width and expand vertically to show the entirety of the displayed list item.
Those are two widgets using replaced elements: <textarea> and <select> respectively.
for the TextArea, there's no way to make it really "resize automatically" other than listening to events and computing the new size (there's actually no need to compute the new size, you can just let the browser do it; see http://phaistonian.pblogs.gr/expanding-textareas-the-easy-and-clean-way.html)
for the ListBox, it's impossible to have the items' text wrap. See Word wrap options in a select list for a similar question in pure JS.
Set the width to whatever number and set height to auto.

Prevent Chrome/Browsers from resizing/restyling form elements

Chrome has some cute features to make the selected form element (input ect) stand out like adding a border color and, more annoyingly, it slightly reduces the margins on some of my form elements after they've been selected, shifting the page slightly each time a text entry box is selected.
It's not the textarea draggable resize effect that chrome has, it's effecting input elements that should have a constant size, but they automatically change once selected.
Is there any CSS to disable this feature, or do I simply have to make sure my text box margins/padding are set up such that Chrome doesn't resize them?
Here it is
textarea { resize:none; }
I love working on other people's sites...the problem was javascript they were using to restyle form elements after click and I have no idea why. Solution was to remove that junk.

How to avoid the behavior of set htmlText in RichTextEditor?

I'm having this problem of adding an image to the textArea in RichTextEditor (RTE) on the fly and this image seems to "reset" the html properties of the textArea.
Better explained:
The user starts writing something in the TextArea (with Verdana in size:12 font settings). When he adds an image to the text area, the cursor right after the image gets very small and the font settings are reset to HUM777B in size:2.
How could I avoid this behavior?
It seems Flex adds additional HTML code before the image tag. If there was any way to avoid this I would be able to add my own settings to the tags.
Just before you programmatically add the image to the textArea, create a variable and store a reference to the textArea styling info. Set the styling info using this variable after you have added the image.

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