On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:56 PM, William K. Hatch Jr.
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Basically, I can't get text fields or text areas to not include size and cols 
> attributes in the tags generated when using a form_for .... f.text_field ... 
> etc within my view. This results in my applied styles being over ridden by 
> the attribute values and, that kinda sucks. Of course I can set the 
> attributes, but that seems ridiculous.  How can I prevent these attributes 
> from being generated so that the css can do it's rightful job?

You can't, and shouldn't -- they're required; see
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#edef-TEXTAREA>

That said, I've never had a problem applying CSS to tweak a textarea
with those attributes, so perhaps you have a different issue?

HTH,
-- 
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected]
twitter: @hassan

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