- From: Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 14:49:40 +1000
- To: Ritchey Mulhollem <hawk@rthdata.com>
- CC: www-validator@w3.org
Ritchey Mulhollem wrote: > Making rows and cols a required attribute of a textarea is pointless > because the style sheet over rides it!! It's not pointless, it allows for better graceful degredation where stylesheets are not enabled/supported. > Rows and Cols should be depricated because the use of CSS makes them > an obsolete hold over. The validator team aren't the right people to address this issue. The HTML WG would be a better choice but you might be interested to know that the Web Forms 2.0 draft [1] (part of the proposed "HTML 5" extensions) does make rows and cols optional. > Why force me to write <textarea class="textarea" rows="0" cols="0"> What about users without stylesheets enabled or unsupported? You'll give them a text area they can't use! It would be better to omit them and accept the validation error, than to force such a ridiculously small size. You should, however, set values large enough to give a reasonably sized text area for such users. [1] http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#extensions1 -- Lachlan Hunt http://lachy.id.au/
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