On 17 Feb 2009, at 17:05, ryan wrote:
We're writing an inline html editor, so we dont know the width of the
textarea... and there can be multiple per page.

On 18 Feb 2009, at 01:07, keif wrote:
It's reaching that point of "I just want to KNOW!" :)

It suddenly came to me in the shower this morning (This is what I think about in the shower?? God I need a life...)

Do you mean, you are writing an inline html editor, for other web page authors to include on web pages? In this case, I finally understand how the % width of the textarea is not know at the time of writing. In this case, there are 2 things you can do that I can think of:

- Document the fact that the textarea is wrapped in a div, so that authors know how the DOM changes (well, you should do this anyway)

- Transfer all classes on the text-area to the wrapper, and document this (so authors know set styles on .replaceableTextArea rather that textarea), and document this

I would probably opt for the second one. But you are right, it is strange there is no (apparent) say to access the CSS style as it was specified.

Michal.

Reply via email to