Trivial textarea problem

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wjabrams
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Trivial textarea problem

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I know this is trivial question? I just can't get seem to get a <textarea> box to increase in size. It is not in a php block but it is on a php page. Looks something like

<textarea name="comments" rows=5 columns=40>Comments:</textarea>

The width of the box doesn't change no matter what I put for "columns."
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Post by JayBird »

nearly right mate

try this

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<textarea name="textarea" cols="40" rows="5">Comments:</textarea>
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Post by twigletmac »

Yup, <textarea> doesn't have a columns attribute, but it does have a cols one.

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Post by McGruff »

Or <textarea style="width: 200px; height: 200px; overflow: auto;">
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Post by twigletmac »

And as McGruff has posted, CSS is even better...

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Post by gavinbsocom »

also a rows one to
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