How to Style the Resize Grabber of Textarea

How to disable the resize grabber of textarea ?

Just use resize: none

textarea {
   resize: none;
}

You can also decide to resize your textareas only horizontal or vertical, this way:

textarea { resize: vertical; }

textarea { resize: horizontal; }

Finally,
resize: both enables the resize grabber.

How to change cursor for resizable textarea?

This is rendered by browser itself cant be designed using css

How can I change the look of resize handles?

This is a tough one. There is no way of styling this specific control. Even if you force a different appearance under webkit you still get the damn resize handle:

http://jsfiddle.net/qw73n/

You can, however, work around it and place a background image in the bottom left corner:

http://jsfiddle.net/q5kdr/

But the handler will still appear on top of it.

I'm afraid the only alternative is using jQuery UI resizable:

http://jqueryui.com/demos/resizable/

How do I disable the resizable property of a textarea?

The following CSS rule disables resizing behavior for textarea elements:

textarea {
  resize: none;
}

To disable it for some (but not all) textareas, there are a couple of options.

You can use class attribute in your tag(<textarea class="textarea1">):

.textarea1 {
  resize: none;
}

To disable a specific textarea with the name attribute set to foo (i.e., <textarea name="foo"></textarea>):

textarea[name=foo] {
  resize: none;
}

Or, using an id attribute (i.e., <textarea id="foo"></textarea>):

#foo {
  resize: none;
}

The W3C page lists possible values for resizing restrictions: none, both, horizontal, vertical, and inherit:

textarea {
  resize: vertical; /* user can resize vertically, but width is fixed */
}

Review a decent compatibility page to see what browsers currently support this feature. As Jon Hulka has commented, the dimensions can be further restrained in CSS using max-width, max-height, min-width, and min-height.

Super important to know:

This property does nothing unless the overflow property is something other than visible, which is the default for most elements. So generally to use this, you'll have to set something like overflow: scroll;

Quote by Sara Cope,
http://css-tricks.com/almanac/properties/r/resize/

How to disable textarea resizing?

You can use css

disable all

textarea { resize: none; }

only vertical resize

textarea { resize: vertical; }

only horizontal resize

textarea { resize: horizontal; } 

disable vertical and horizontal with limit

textarea { resize: horizontal; max-width: 400px; min-width: 200px; }

disable horizontal and vertical with limit

textarea { resize: vertical; max-height: 300px; min-height: 200px; }

I think min-height should be useful for you

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