Some interesting points covering this issue on this list in May: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg17620.html
Visible height and width do matter in text-based browsers that won't recognise CSS, to give the end user some indication as to the expected length of his response. A one row text entry area will attract different responses than a 10 row area. Regards, Jachin Sheehy On 6/27/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The rows and cols attributes - mandatory for any textarea > > element - defines the *VISIBLE* height and width of the > > element. So why are they in the mark-up? I've googled long > > and hard and haven't found anything to the contrary. Surely > > these attributes should be defined in the CSS. On 6/27/05, Scott Swabey (Lafinboy Productions) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > I declare the height/width of textareas in CSS and don't use cols/rows in > the markup. I haven't come across any problems in [ limited ] testing so > far. ****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
