- From: Ashley Sheridan <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 02 Jun 2010 12:05:37 +0100
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:51 +0200, Old?ich Vete?n?k wrote: > Hi, > > I'm missing the wrap="off" value for textarea wrap attribute; is there any > particular reason why this is not part of HTML5? > Currently the only values mentioned are "soft" and "hard": > > http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/the-button-element.html#attr-textarea-wrap > > "The wrap attribute is an enumerated attribute with two keywords and > states: the soft keyword which maps to the Soft state, and the hard > keyword which maps to the Hard state. The missing value default is the > Soft state." > > However, I'd like to use wrap=off because I don't want the lines to wrap. > (Like when you have a HTML in textarea.) > I haven't found any other way to "force" this behavior (yep, I tried > white-space: nowrap;). > I tested it in all major browsers on Windows and it works, it just won't > validate. :) > > Code > <textarea cols=50 rows=10 wrap=soft></textarea> > <textarea cols=50 rows=10 wrap=hard></textarea> > <textarea cols=50 rows=10 wrap=off></textarea> > More at http://server.ebrana.cz/olda/_apps/html5/textarea-wrap.html > > There is also no mention in the spec about wrap=virtual and wrap=physical > back from the days. > http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/forms/_TEXTAREA_WRAP.html > > Thanks, > Ollie That does seem odd. I would have thought the default value would be 'off' or 'no' as I've never seen a browser yet wrap text in a textarea unless a specific wrapping method was specified either via an attribute or CSS. Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20100602/bfc54416/attachment.htm>
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