- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2009 09:22:03 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote: > > 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. The "off" value is already defined in HTML5 for the purpose of rendering [1]. However, it isn't a conforming value, because it appears to have no purpose other than a visual presentational effect. [1] Last paragraph of: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element-0 -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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