If anyone else is looking to resize the textarea here is how I got it to work.
On page load run JS:
$('textarea[dsid="Textarea_Name"]').css('height',
'350px');
Where Texarea_Name is the name given to your text area in properties.
Ok thats great to know im on the right track! After I use the parse code above I can't get any results when. I alert test. Is my code wrong?
After further thinking on this I can most likely accomplish what I need through REST.
I'm not sure why this is marked answered but I just wanted to make a post so it doesn't get forgotten due to the Answered label.