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[RESOLVED] Setting Textarea Width and Height

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Jul 12.2011

I read that it’s better to set the width and height of a textarea tag with CSS rather than with the cols and rows attributes. But, not having cols and rows specified will raise an error when you validate your page (that’s what I remember, anyway). Won’t cols and rows overwrite any CSS you specify?

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@Cory_RJul 12.2011 — Quite the opposite, actually. CSS overrides cols and rows, so you can set a 'dummy' cols and rows value for validation then use CSS to specify what the actual width and height should be.
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@Joseph_WitchardauthorJul 12.2011 — Really? Is this true for all CSS or just inline styling?
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@Cory_RJul 12.2011 — In accordance to my tests, CSS always overrides HTML attributes, and they don't even have to be inline styles.
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@Joseph_WitchardauthorJul 12.2011 — Great. Thanks?
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