I was wondering how we can make a HTML element like <div>
or <p>
tag element resizable when clicked using pure JavaScript, not the jQuery library or any other library.
I really recommend using some sort of library, but you asked for it, you get it:
var p = document.querySelector('p'); // element to make resizable
p.addEventListener('click', function init() {
p.removeEventListener('click', init, false);
p.className = p.className + ' resizable';
var resizer = document.createElement('div');
resizer.className = 'resizer';
p.appendChild(resizer);
resizer.addEventListener('mousedown', initDrag, false);
}, false);
var startX, startY, startWidth, startHeight;
function initDrag(e) {
startX = e.clientX;
startY = e.clientY;
startWidth = parseInt(document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(p).width, 10);
startHeight = parseInt(document.defaultView.getComputedStyle(p).height, 10);
document.documentElement.addEventListener('mousemove', doDrag, false);
document.documentElement.addEventListener('mouseup', stopDrag, false);
}
function doDrag(e) {
p.style.width = (startWidth + e.clientX - startX) + 'px';
p.style.height = (startHeight + e.clientY - startY) + 'px';
}
function stopDrag(e) {
document.documentElement.removeEventListener('mousemove', doDrag, false);
document.documentElement.removeEventListener('mouseup', stopDrag, false);
}
Remember that this may not run in all browsers (tested only in Firefox, definitely not working in IE <9).