In the Roblox website there is a rule in the stylesheet to set resize: none for all textareas.
This is horrible for UX, but don’t take my word for it, here’s an expert writeup about why it is bad:
Read the conclusion at the bottom, which states:
You must really hate your users if
textarea {resize: none}is in your stylesheets. CSS resize none is bad for UX and you already know it:
There’s really no benefit, at all, to disabling the resize on textareas. Furthermore, almost all of the textareas on Roblox’s website have a very small, restrictive viewport which makes editing unnecessarily challenging.
Steps to reproduce:
- Go to your Experience’s “Configure this Place” page.
- Attempt to update the description.
- Notice the texarea where you’re supposed to type the description is annoyingly small
- Notice you cannot increase the size of the textarea
Expected behavior
Textareas should be large enough to view more content, and they should allow the user to resize them to a size that is ergonomically comfortable and useful.
Observed behavior
The css on the Roblox website is designed to prevent the user from resizing textareas.