When validating a page containing a form for XHTML 1.0 Transitional, I
get the following message regarding a textarea:
required attribute cols not specified
Why can't we specify a percentage width for the textarea in the CSS
instead? It works, but it doesn't validate without the cols
cols is used to define the number of characters on a line. That is
percent is giving you an error. The default for this in html 4.01 is
80.
I believe in xhtml it is required to be defined.
Parker
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On 5/23/05, Leslie Riggs [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm using XHTML 1.0 Transitional. I don't have a percentage defined in
the markup. It's defined in the CSS as width: 65% and I left the cols
attribute unspecified. What I want to understand is why is cols
required by the W3C standard, if the width can be defined in CSS? Is
there a specific
Leslie Riggs wrote:
What I want to understand is why is cols required by the W3C standard,
if the width can be defined in CSS?
The way I find it easiest to explain is to think about what happens if
CSS was to be disabled in the browser, or the browser was incapable of
processing CSS (take
Isn't the default 80 columns?
Leslie Riggs
What I want to understand is why is cols required by the W3C standard,
if the width can be defined in CSS?
The way I find it easiest to explain is to think about what happens if
CSS was to be disabled in the browser, or the browser was
Leslie Riggs wrote:
Isn't the default 80 columns?
From the DTD, my understanding is that cols is a required attribute but
no default value is specified (see
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd). It could be
that the defaults you refer to are browser defaults.
Cheers
