Amazing. I can look at it for hours.

I looked at it for a good long while trying to work out exactly what the code was doing. I got nothing.

the box is right aligned. the width change occurs when the cursors is left or right of the point it clicked. so when you move teh cursor sideways, you change its width, but the right side doesnt follow, instead the left side moves, cause its right aligned

That's pretty fucking dumb

So why doesn't the browser display the drag handle in the lower left corner for right-aligned boxes?

Then this would feel more natural.

This is more the browser's fault than the web designer. Chrome makes all textboxes resizable, even where they shouldn't be. When you resize it to make it bigger, it never moves, so it keeps thinking you want to make it bigger ad infinitum.. and making it smaller does the same the other way.

It's actually pretty fun to play with for like 20 seconds once you understand how it works. https://jsfiddle.net/1v5g72ph/

You know, my day was going well. Then I saw this. Had to go to store to drink myself drunk. Then I realized, this is an insight into what hell is actually like.

A surprise to be sure, but a welcome one.

This is a feature of Chrome which can break on sites which do unusual things with text boxes. As others have said in this case it's because when the box is resized, the left edge moves. The resizer is on the wrong side to work properly.

There is a CSS style to hide the resizer, which is what this site should have done if it was made any time after the first Chrome version with this feature was released.

wow... oh and btw can you tell telstra to go die for not investing in Australian infrastructure and letting it rot... k thanks.

Trust me I've let Telstra know exactly how I feel about their services over the last week.