Why is it that rows and cols are required attributes for the textarea
element, even in xhtml? They strike me as being purely presentational, and
not really needed: in the absense of styling, browsers could apply
arbitrary defaults as they do with text input field width. I can't find
any
I've wondered about this one as well, my guess is that
1. they figured the attributes were to important to drop in
the event of non-css user agents,
or more likely
2. they didn't change it because xhtml1.x was really not
much more than a reformulation of html into xml. To get real xhtml we
ably write a completely different passage of text.
- Original Message -
From:
Alan
Trick
To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org
Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 8:15
AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] textarea rows
cols - presentation in xhtml?
I've wondered about this one as well
At 03:00 PM 4/4/2005, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
It could be argued that it is more than presentation. It indicates to the
user about the quantity or usage of the textarea; the size of text fields
is a usability topic. If you were told to write a Summary of your
proposal, and given 8 lines instead
: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: [WSG] textarea rows cols - presentation in xhtml?
At 03:00 PM 4/4/2005, Sigurd Magnusson wrote:
It could be argued that it is more than presentation. It indicates to the
user about the quantity or usage of the textarea; the size of text fields
