Patrick H. Lauke wrote:
I agree with the thread starter that the visual display size of a textarea should really be defined via CSS. If these were maxrows and maxcols, it would be a case for having it in the HTML, but as it stands this seems to muddy the line a bit too much...
The need for the rows and cols attributes can be seen once you imagine the page without any CSS styling. Similarly, the requirement for the size attribute on a text input element and width and height on img the element.
Ultimately CSS may not be available on all the devices for which we design and default rendering of unstyled elements will vary.
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