feat(textarea): adjusting min-height of the textarea for ionic theme

[rugoncalves]

Issue number: resolves internal

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This pull request introduces new tests and refactors the styling for the ion-textarea component, especially for the ionictheme.

What is the current behavior?

• Ionic theme specifics:
  • Some paddings and margins were applied in different place;

What is the new behavior?

• The ionic theme has the following changes:
  • .textarea-size-* classes stopped forcing the min-height;
• Added an end-to-end test file textarea.e2e.ts to verify that the rows attribute is respected across different values, sizes, and with auto-grow enabled.
• Introduced a new HTML test page (index.html) for visual/manual testing of ion-textarea with different rows and size combinations, and with auto-grow enabled.

Does this introduce a breaking change?

• Yes
• No

Other information

Original PR

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Project	Deployment	Actions	Updated (UTC)
ionic-framework	Ready	Preview, Comment	Feb 18, 2026 9:33pm

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Pull request overview

This PR fixes an issue where textareas with the rows attribute set to 1 (or other values) would not properly respect the row count due to forced min-height values in the Ionic theme. The fix adjusts padding placement and removes fixed min-height constraints when the rows attribute is present.

Changes:

• Removed hardcoded min-height values from .textarea-size-* classes in the Ionic theme
• Added min-height: auto override for textareas with the rows attribute
• Moved padding from .textarea-wrapper-inner to .native-textarea when rows is set (for proper scrolling behavior)
• Added comprehensive e2e tests for the rows functionality

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
textarea.ionic.scss	Removed min-height from size classes; added padding redistribution for rows attribute
textarea.common.scss	Added min-height: auto override for textareas with rows attribute
test/rows/textarea.e2e.ts	New comprehensive test suite for rows functionality
test/rows/index.html	New manual testing page for rows feature
Various snapshot files	Updated visual regression test snapshots

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LGTM