TEXTAREA tag

[Walter W. Giesbrecht]

On 20 Apr 98 at 7:06, JENNY BOOKER wrote:

> I have been approached about a problem to get submitted forms to also 
> wrap the text within a textarea box.  Does anyone know of a way of 
> doing this without having to manually put in the line breaks, as 
> your completeing the form?  Is there anything like a LINELENGTH tag 
> that will automatically wrap the text or is this something that will 
> be developed in the next HTML standards?

The <TEXTAREA> element supports a WRAP attribute that will do what 
you want, but it is only supported in Netscape 2.x and up. The 
syntax is

WRAP="physical"
	Causes the text to wrap within the area specified by the COLS and 
     ROWS attributes. The end-of-line characters are passed on when 
	the FORM is submitted.

WRAP="virtual"
	Same as above, but the end-of-line characters are not trasmitted 
	along with the text.

This comes from HTML SOURCEBOOK (3rd edition) by Ian S. Graham, which 
only covers HTML 3.2, but is one of the best HTML references I have 
seen.
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