scrollHeight problems with IE8

scrollHeight property does not work on IE8 and older IE browsers.

The workaround is to call the property before using it.

var tbox = document.querySelectorAll('[id^="transtext"]');

            for (var i = 0; i < tbox.length; i++) {

                tbox[i].style.height = 'auto';

                //put this line to make it work

                tbox[i].scrollHeight;

                tbox[i].style.height = tbox[i].scrollHeight + 'px';

            }

Useful link:

http://www.atalasoft.com/cs/blogs/davidcilley/archive/2009/06/23/internet-explorer-textarea-scrollheight-bug.aspx