Expandable multi-line textfield

Hello everyone,
I am fairly new to midp. I would like to know if I could create a customizable widget which would behave like this:
Originally, one line textfield would be displayed.
If the characters, entered by the user, do not fit in the first line then a second line would be displayed and the user could keep on entering more characters on that line.
Thank you in advance for your help.
Jean.

Sure you can! Just do it ;)

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