Is "width" used for the text box?
Is the CSS property 'width'applicable to <textarea>?
In practice, people say that they use it successfully , for example, using a rule like this:
textarea
{
width:100%;
}
What bothers me is that the CSS 2.1 specification for width says:
This property indicates the contents of the width of the boxes generated by the block level and replaced items. This property does not apply to non-replaced line level elements.
I thought the text box is an element at the line level, because, for example, markup like this ...
<p>
This is some more text:
<textarea name="mytextarea" rows="3" cols="15">Text in the text area</textarea>
And even more, more text.
</p>
... creates a single paragraph block with text to the left and right of <textarea>, and therefore, according to the specification, the width should not be applied.
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