About to give up with IONIC 3 - Simple Native-like chat page not possible

[reedrichards]

About “not to mention trying to create an elastic text area for the input text” of your original question @Alexmady … there you go:

[SOLVED] Ion-textarea resize height dynamically

Freak, took me way to much tiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiime just for that, but got it. The tricks is: don’t use ion-textarea but textarea and don’t forget the ‘.px’ part to change the height dynamically. Html: <textarea #myInput id="myInput" rows="1" maxLength="500" (keyup)="resize()" [(ngModel)]="myStuff"></textarea> Css: #myInput { width: calc(100% - 10px); border: 0; border-radius: 0; background: transparent; } Ts: @ViewChild('myInput'…