function countLines(strtocount, cols) {
    var hard_lines = 1;
    var last = 0;
    while ( true ) {
        last = strtocount.indexOf("\n", last+1);
        hard_lines ++;
        if ( last == -1 ) break;
    }
    var soft_lines = Math.round(strtocount.length / (cols-1));
    var hard = eval("hard_lines  " + unescape("%3e") + "soft_lines;");
    if ( hard ) soft_lines = hard_lines;
    
    return soft_lines;
}

function resizeTextarea(x) {
	// x must be the specific textarea DOM object (can use "this")
  x.rows = countLines(x.value,x.cols);
}