- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Aug 2009 10:05:05 -0500
Proposal ======== Add the "off" state to the @wrap attribute for textareas. Explanation =========== The "off" state prevents a textarea from wrapping text at all while displaying. Instead, text that is too long for the textarea trigger a horizontal scrollbar, but stays on one line. The only way for text to drop to a new line is with an actual carriage return. The value of a textarea with wrap=off is the same as wrap=soft. Reasoning ========= Every UA I've tested (FF3.5, IE7, Opera10B2, Safari4, Chrome2) already supports it. They offer slightly different displays of a wrap=off textarea, but the basic functionality as described above is identical and seemingly interoperable. Adding this to the spec shouldn't require any additional work from the UAs, it would merely be recognizing and enshrining a facility that is already common to all of them.
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