[WEB4LIB] WRAP Attribute for Forms

[Samuel Mcdonald]

Since this was interesting I went looking:

here is the best discussion that I found:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1996Nov/0076.html
see next
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1996Nov/0078.html
"WRAP is entirely NETSCAPE specific.
 MSIE on the otherhand forces wrapping all the time."
(follow the thread ad nauseum)

http://www.htmlcompendium.org/4form-t.htm
"Opera 3.51 specifically precludes the wrap option as does WebTV 1.2."

http://www.webwisewizard.com/html/html014a.shtml
HTML Tutorials: Forms Textarea Wrap

http://www.idocs.com/tags/forms/_TEXTAREA_WRAP.html
"You may from time to time see other variations on WRAP, such as VIRTUAL
or PHYSICAL. Netscape introduced these attributes a few years ago as
proposed
extensions to HTML 3.0, then abandoned them. Officially, the HTML 4.0
specs don't list WRAP, but Netscape and MSIE list WRAP = HARD | SOFT | OFF
in their guides. It's best to stick these three values. "


Hope that this was helpful and interstsing..I thought so.

-Sam



On Mon, 10 Jul 2000 peterson at amigos.org wrote:

> There probably is an easy answer for this, but I can't seem to find it.
> I'm getting ready to teach the creation of forms for librarians.  I was
> re-checking the standard and ran into a brick wall.  I see references in
> books and on web sites for WRAP being used in the <TEXTAREA> tag.  However,
> I can't verify that it is a legitimate attribute.  I couldn't find it
> listed in the current HTML specification:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/
> 
> I've tried some of the more well-known HTML reference sites; some use it as
> if it were part of the specification and some don't mention it.  I've
> checked to see if it is part of either Netscape and Microsoft extensions --
> no luck.
> 
> Can someone shed some light on this for me?  Is it part of HTML 4.01 or
> not?  Any help would be appreciated!
> 
> Christine Peterson
> Library Liaison Officer
> Amigos Library Services
> 14400 Midway Road
> Dallas, TX  75244-3509
> 800/843-8482
> www.amigos.org
> peterson at amigos.org
> 
> 
> 

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