TEXTAREA tag

[Home Building Books]

To make the text within a textarea box wrap on
a Windows NT platform running cgi_lib.pl, do
this:
<textarea name="Comments" rows=2 cols=33></textarea>

T.S. Thomas
Editor: Webmaster Enews
http://www.webmastersites.com

 
> 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?
> 
> Jenny
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> Jenny Booker
> WWW Project Coordinator
> The Robinson Library
> University of Newcastle upon Tyne
> Newcastle upon Tyne 
> NE2 4HQ
> Tel: 0191 2226688
> email: Jenny.Booker at newcastle.ac.uk
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