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Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Sat, 10 Jun 2000 20:25:28 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
I wonder if MSIE has a different default than NN when the wrap attribute is
omitted.  I just added a WRAP=OFF (nonstandard attribute but defined in 1996
O'Reilly book on HTML), to the <TEXTAREA> tag.  I haven't tested it with MSIE
yet but I'll bet it causes MSIE to stop wrapping.  It can't hurt.

Hrmmm - the only comment this has received so far from a user is a pseudo
complaint that it doesn't wrap when using Netscape and the answer is to make
it not wrap with IE?  :)

Hmm, maybe what the box needs is a checkbox or conflibbergibbet somewhere
asking whether you'd prefer line-wrapping by default and what size box
(height, width) you'd prefer by default.

Hope so - I prefer the wrapping, but now I don't have it anymore.



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  Re: Editing Member Pages & Netscape
 
(...) Well, it's actually _not_ supposed to wrap in the case of these edit boxes. There is an "extension" attribute WRAP= for <TEXTAREA> but it's not defined as part of the actual HTML 3.2 (or even HTML 4.01) standard. Here's what 4.01 has to say: (...) (24 years ago, 10-Jun-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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