C# – How to auto resize and adjust Form controls with change in resolution

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I have noticed that some applications change their controls position to adjust them as much as possible in the resolution as possible, If window is maximized they set themselves in such a way that over all GUI looks balanced.
My question is that is it possible to make or implement this functionality in Visual studio 2010 C#?

Best Answer

Use Dock and Anchor properties. Here is a good article. Note that these will handle changes when maximizing/minimizing. That is a little different that if the screen resolution changes, but it will be along the same idea.

A COMPLETE YET SIMPLE SOLUTION

Updated 2020-05-14 (Improved browser support for mobiles and tablets)

The following code will work:

On key input.
With pasted text (right click & ctrl+v).
With cut text (right click & ctrl+x).
With pre-loaded text.
With all textarea's (multiline textbox's) site wide.
With Firefox (v31-67 tested).
With Chrome (v37-74 tested).
With IE (v9-v11 tested).
With Edge (v14-v18 tested).
With IOS Safari.
With Android Browser.
With JavaScript strict mode.
Is w3c validated.
And is streamlined and efficient.

OPTION 1 (With jQuery)

This option requires jQuery and has been tested and is working with 1.7.2 - 3.6

Simple (Add this jquery code to your master script file and forget about it.)

$("textarea").each(function () {
  this.setAttribute("style", "height:" + (this.scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
}).on("input", function () {
  this.style.height = "auto";
  this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
});

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT.
This javascript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>

Test on jsfiddle

OPTION 2 (Pure JavaScript)

Simple (Add this JavaScript to your master script file and forget about it.)

const tx = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
for (let i = 0; i < tx.length; i++) {
  tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + (tx[i].scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
  tx[i].addEventListener("input", OnInput, false);
}

function OnInput() {
  this.style.height = "auto";
  this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
}

<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT. This JavaScript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>

Test on jsfiddle

OPTION 3 (jQuery Extension)

Useful if you want to apply further chaining to the textareas you want to be auto-sized.

jQuery.fn.extend({
  autoHeight: function () {
    function autoHeight_(element) {
      return jQuery(element)
        .css({ "height": "auto", "overflow-y": "hidden" })
        .height(element.scrollHeight);
    }
    return this.each(function() {
      autoHeight_(this).on("input", function() {
        autoHeight_(this);
      });
    });
  }
});

Invoke with $("textarea").autoHeight()

UPDATING TEXTAREA VIA JAVASCRIPT

When injecting content into a textarea via JavaScript append the following code to invoke the function in option 1.

$("textarea").trigger("input");

PRESET TEXTAREA HEIGHT

To fix the initial height of the textarea you will need to add an additional condition:

const txHeight = 16;
const tx = document.getElementsByTagName("textarea");
for (let i = 0; i < tx.length; i++) {
  if (tx[i].value == '') {
    tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + txHeight + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
  } else {
    tx[i].setAttribute("style", "height:" + (tx[i].scrollHeight) + "px;overflow-y:hidden;");
  }
  tx[i].addEventListener("input", OnInput, false);
}

function OnInput(e) {
  this.style.height = "auto";
  this.style.height = (this.scrollHeight) + "px";
}

<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here...">PRELOADED TEXT. This JavaScript should now add better support for IOS browsers and Android browsers.</textarea>
<textarea placeholder="Type, paste, cut text here..."></textarea>

Javascript – How to detect the screen resolution with JavaScript

original answer

Yes.

window.screen.availHeight
window.screen.availWidth

update 2017-11-10

From Tsunamis in the comments:

To get the native resolution of i.e. a mobile device you have to multiply with the device pixel ratio: window.screen.width * window.devicePixelRatio and window.screen.height * window.devicePixelRatio. This will also work on desktops, which will have a ratio of 1.

And from Ben in another answer:

In vanilla JavaScript, this will give you the AVAILABLE width/height:
window.screen.availHeight
window.screen.availWidth
For the absolute width/height, use:
window.screen.height
window.screen.width