Re: [css-d] the correct way to declare textarea width

2009-01-11 Thread Michael J. I. Jackson
A nice way to get a textarea to be the exact size that you want it to be is to forget about setting its width and instead use a container div with the same background color. Use the cols attribute of the textarea to set it to some value that will put it just inside the container div's boundary, and

Re: [css-d] the correct way to declare textarea width

2009-01-09 Thread Paul Wampler
37932 (865) 637-7673 ext. 102 http://www.cupahr.org -Original Message- From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Eric Cash Sent: Friday, January 09, 2009 4:28 PM To: css-d@lists.css-discuss.org Subject: [css-d] the correct way to d

Re: [css-d] the correct way to declare textarea width

2009-01-09 Thread Virgilio Quilario
hi Eric, actually on my ff 3.0.5, it breaks and it worked when padding set to 0 for textarea. screen.css at line 244 textarea { height:250px; padding:0; /* set to 0 */ width:390px; } padding of 5px actually pushed the textarea out of bounce. cheers, virgil http://www.jampmark.com On Sat, Jan

[css-d] the correct way to declare textarea width

2009-01-09 Thread Eric Cash
I hate form elements... I've run into this problem before, I don't think I've ever actually understood it. On this page http://scotaganda.com/work/MineKey/opinionsBoard.html the "Express your opinion" textarea is fine in firefox, but both safari and ie place "control" on the right hand side of