jQuery ui ReSizable with scroll bars

It should work, if you put a wrapper around the element to be resized, and make this wrapper resizable.

I was playing around with that idea and this result seems to work:

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$(".resizable")
  .wrap('<div/>')
    .css({'overflow':'hidden'})
      .parent()
        .css({'display':'inline-block',
              'overflow':'hidden',
              'height':function(){return $('.resizable',this).height();},
              'width':  function(){return $('.resizable',this).width();},
              'paddingBottom':'12px',
              'paddingRight':'12px'

             }).resizable()
                .find('.resizable')
                  .css({overflow:'auto',
                        width:'100%',
                        height:'100%'});
});
</script>

Test with jsfiddle

jQuery UI team considers scrollable resizable div as a bad design. So it is "won't fix feature: http://bugs.jqueryui.com/ticket/9119 Workaround as Dr.Molle already stated - resizable wrapper for scrollable div.