Text Area + Scrolling Issues

Captain-Fungi · 28 Nov 2006 at 19:08

I have a text area on my webpage that is 18 chars in width at source. When I type into the textarea I can type more than 18chars and a scrollbar appears on the horizontal axis of the textarea.

How can I enforce a maximum of 18chars per line within my text area?

Thanks

Captain-Fungi · 28 Nov 2006 at 19:11

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Captain-Fungi · 28 Nov 2006 at 19:15

Sorry I should have explained myself better, it is a maximum of 18chars per row/line.

For instance I want it to look like this:

123456789123456789
123456789123456789

Instead I get:

123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789123456789

In Safari the textarea behaves as expected, in Firefox/IE it doesnt :rolleyes:

Captain-Fungi · 28 Nov 2006 at 20:43

KingAdora said:
Don't you have to give it a:

cols="5"

Tried that, it doesnt work. It just carries on scrolling!