jQuery access textbox within GridView

If you want to access the textbox in the gridview example below, use

$("table[id*=ResultGridView] input[type=text][id*=date]")

<asp:GridView ID="ResultGridView" runat="server" OnRowDataBound="ResultGridView_RowDataBound">
        <Columns>
            <asp:TemplateField>
                <ItemTemplate>
                    <asp:TextBox ID="date" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>dd/MM/yyyy                  </ItemTemplate>
            </asp:TemplateField>
        </Columns>
    </asp:GridView> 

Auto-resize textbox

Facebook like textboxes

Download this jquery plugin
http://james.padolsey.com/demos/plugins/jQuery/autoresize.jquery.js

Then apply this for your textbox

$('textarea#comment').autoResize({
    // On resize:
    onResize : function() {
        $(this).css({opacity:0.8});
    },
    // After resize:
    animateCallback : function() {
        $(this).css({opacity:1});
    },
    // Quite slow animation:
    animateDuration : 300,
    // More extra space:
    extraSpace : 40
});