[WSG] Textarea problem

[Vaska . WSG]

I'm having a problem with a textarea.  It will display properly on the 
page (which has three div columns) but when a person begins to input 
data it automatically expands (to the right) so it occupies two columns 
instead of just the middle column.  I've never seen anything like this 
before...

<textarea name='msg' class='t1'></textarea>

.t1 {
display:inline;  <- this is a tip I got from the mail list
width:98%;
height:125px;
}
I've validated the code and this problem seems consistent in IE6 in 
windows 2000.

Has anybody experience this same problem?  I could post more code for 
this but I'll wait and see if there might be an easy solution to this 
first.

Thanks, v

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