Jough wrote:
What, exactly, is the idea behind keeping the attributes of ‘rows’ and ‘cols’ a requirement of a textarea in XHTML 1.0? It seems to me that these values reflect formatting rather than valid information.
The problem with textarea is, how it should be displayed, when CSS is off? Should it default to 5, 10, 15, 20, ... rows? How wide should it be? Wide enough to write a poem, or as wide as the entire page? So, it's pretty clear, there has to be some way of telling the non-CSS browsers how to large the textarea should be. Maybe the textarea could have some default values, which would make the cols and rows optional, but it's pretty hard to agree what those default values should be. Maybe the guys in W3C just couldn't agree on a default value. -- Rene Saarsoo ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *******************************************************************
