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The textarea field of a variable in CI/CD pipelines does not expand

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Overview

When creating or editing a variable in a GitLab CI/CD pipeline via the UI, the textarea field does not expand to display the entire content. This makes it difficult to read or edit long values.

Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to a GitLab project.
  2. Go to CI/CD > Pipelines > Run pipeline.
  3. Add a variable with a long value.
  4. Observe that the textarea field remains small and does not automatically adjust to the content size.

Expected behavior: The text area should automatically expand (or be resizable) to allow for better readability and editing of the content.

Observed behavior: The field remains fixed in height, requiring horizontal scrolling or copy-pasting the content elsewhere to read/edit it.

Tested browser:

  • Chrome
  • Firefox
  • Edge

GitLab version:

  • 17.11.1
  • 18.0.2

Screenshot: bug-gitlab

Proposal

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