diff --git a/war/resources/css/style.css b/war/resources/css/style.css
index e03ce9a1c061454214022c162a628098de681f43..210a7ae9de4758168f3d20364aa77e0ae5b6605d 100644
--- a/war/resources/css/style.css
+++ b/war/resources/css/style.css
@@ -652,3 +652,17 @@ DIV.yahooTree td {
   position:absolute;
   visibility: hidden;
 }
+
+/* ========================= resizable text area ========================= */
+
+TEXTAREA {
+    margin-bottom: 0;
+}
+DIV.textarea-handle {
+    height: 5px;
+    font-size: 0;
+    background: #EEE url(../images/textarea-handle.gif) no-repeat 50% 1px;
+    border: 1px solid #BABDB6;
+    border-top: none;
+    cursor: s-resize;
+}
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diff --git a/war/resources/images/textarea-handle.gif b/war/resources/images/textarea-handle.gif
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..97d5cc3f6815bbd0e7a8dd4630eb36c05ad07b7f
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diff --git a/war/resources/scripts/hudson-behavior.js b/war/resources/scripts/hudson-behavior.js
index 0bf0f25161cc8e25256032106958f8516a70e47b..64ad86577632b75aa2cdba5d81bca37eb6b33ae8 100644
--- a/war/resources/scripts/hudson-behavior.js
+++ b/war/resources/scripts/hudson-behavior.js
@@ -239,6 +239,26 @@ var hudsonRules = {
         object(repetableSupport).init(e, e.firstChild, ip);
     },
 
+    // resizable text area
+    "TEXTAREA" : function(textarea) {
+        var handle = document.createElement("div");
+        handle.setAttribute("class","textarea-handle");
+        textarea.parentNode.insertBefore(handle,textarea.nextSibling);
+        handle.onmousedown = function(ev) {
+            var offset = textarea.offsetHeight-YAHOO.util.Event.getPageY(ev);
+            textarea.style.opacity = 0.5;
+            document.onmousemove = function(ev) {
+                function max(a,b) { if(a<b) return b; else return a; }
+                textarea.style.height = max(32, offset + YAHOO.util.Event.getPageY(ev)) + 'px';
+            };
+            document.onmouseup = function() {
+                document.onmousemove = null;
+                document.onmouseup = null;
+                textarea.style.opacity = 1;
+            }
+        }
+    },
+
     // hook up tooltip
     "[tooltip]" : function(e) {
         // copied from YAHOO.widget.Tooltip.prototype.configContext to efficiently add a new element
@@ -264,6 +284,7 @@ function replaceDescription() {
           method : 'get',
           onComplete : function(x) {
             d.innerHTML = x.responseText;
+            Behaviour.applySubtree(d);
             d.getElementsByTagName("TEXTAREA")[0].focus();
           }
         }