TEXTAREA tag

[Gwen Galton]

On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, 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?

I use the WRAP attribute (supported only by Netscape Navigator).
WRAP="hard" means the user doesn't have to press Enter -  hard return 
characters are automatically inserted.  WRAP="soft" means the user still 
doesn't have to do anything, but  the text is sent to the server as one 
big string. 
the person entering the data but is sent to the server as one big string.

> 
> 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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> 

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