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Mel
 
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Default form textarea question about style... - 02-03-2004 , 02:29 PM






i have a textarea with 10 rows, i need to only display scrollbars when
needed.
what should i set in my style for input of type textarea to do that ?

thanks,
Mel



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Jukka K. Korpela
 
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Default Re: form textarea question about style... - 02-03-2004 , 04:00 PM






"Mel" <jmel (AT) redolive (DOT) com> wrote:

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i have a textarea with 10 rows, i need to only display scrollbars
when needed.
Why do you think you need that? I think what matters is what the user
needs, and users tend to be conservative. If something does not look
like a textarea, it ain't no textarea.

Quote:
what should i set in my style for input of type textarea to do that
?
Well, you don't do that in HTML, so the group is wrong.

(In CSS you would use overflow: auto.)

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