Scott Swabey (Lafinboy Productions) wrote:
I declare the height/width of textareas in CSS and don't use cols/rows in the markup. I haven't come across any problems in [ limited ] testing so far.
Unfortunately a textarea without rows and cols attributes won't pass validation for xhtml 1.0 strict.
I agree with the thread starter that the visual display size of a textarea should really be defined via CSS. If these were maxrows and maxcols, it would be a case for having it in the HTML, but as it stands this seems to muddy the line a bit too much...
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