Rob freeman wrote: > I did remove the col and rows from the textarea > and let css control the width and height of my comments box.
Remember the CSS Caveats: there are many reasons why your style sheet rules might not have the desired effects, see http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/css-caveats.html > What do I have to do to get this page to validate? To use valid markup. Validation as such is a formal issue and completely independent of CSS, hence off-topic in the css-discuss list. It might be relevant to note, however, that the rows and cols attribute have no effect on rendering _if_ you set textarea dimensions in CSS _and_ the browser correctly applies that part of your style sheet. Thus, being valid in this issue has no "cost" in terms of styling with CSS. On the contrary, it may come to rescue when your style sheet is not applied. On the other hand, the HTML attributes are the most _natural_ way of setting textarea dimensions, in terms of rows (number of lines) and columns (number of characters on a line), though the cols thing is not very reliable: it is theoretically obscure (what's "average width" of a character?) and inconsistently implemented. Yet, there is no CSS unit corresponding to the average width of a character, and setting the height as number of lines is more complicated in CSS (you need to pay attention to line-height, among other things). So it's really best to _start_ with the rows and cols attributes and then (maybe) consider whether CSS dimensioning might make an improvement (when CSS is "on"). > http://www.coloursense.net/testfolder/contact.php Unless you have a compelling reason to do otherwise, it's best to give a textarea more width (50 - 60 characters is generally considered as the optimal line length for reading, and why shouldn't the user be allowed to read this own text comfortably?). This generally means that it should appear below other fields, not side by side with them. CSS even lets you set a textarea as wide as possible within the available width, using width: 100%, but it's debatable whether that's useful. Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca") http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
