Attempt to make textarea resizable in IE7 failes if textarea in hidden container

This may very well be an issue for things other then textarea as well - but I only tried this:

$('textarea').resizable({autoHide: true});

Works fine for all visible textarea items.

In IE7 it fails with a JS error "Invalid Argument" - (I know - useless error message), works fine in Safari, FF2,3 and Opera.

I tried it with :visible as well - but it didn't make any difference.