look and feel of textarea / htmltextarea

Hello everyone.. i want to change the look and feel of textarea / htmltextarea so that i can save some real estate.. what i mean is.. say if the content in the textarea runs into more show 2 lines, i display only 2 lines and rest of the lines are not displayed. Instead i show a "more...." link just under the textbox, on clicking which, the full text shows in a bubble next to the textarea.. is it possible out of the box or a mod that can help me? i can make the code changes too.. whatever works.. 

Thanks! :)

Instead of a bubble, let the text appear below the more; this is more of the standard way this is done on the interweb.There are several ways to handle this and you can search on the net for solutions.  I implemented something similar on a blog site where I hide comments and there is a "Show Comments"; in your case it will be "More" and "Less".  It involves a bit of javacsript to toggle the CSS display.  If you are going to have several instances of content with "More", then you need to add a bit of php code so that you give each section a unique ID so that the javascript knows which division or span to expand or collapse.

hey.. thanks.. yes my case is more like less and more.. Basically the members profile information fields that can be quite verbose.. is there a code piece i can use? some link you can refer me to? i'll search myself too, but just in case you have something? Thanks!