Using "width" with <textarea>

[sjhanna]

This sounds exactly like the problem I need to solve. I have a form embedded in a table. Because I need different amounts of space for captions (which appear to the left of their fields) and the fields themselves, but still want a regular appearance to the whole thing, I've designed a table with fixed-width columns, then I make liberal use of "colspan" to have the contents occupy the appropriate width. For text fields, I specify "width='100%'", which causes the text fields to fill the number of columns I allocate for them. However, when I did the same thing with <textarea>s, they only expand to about half the size of the space, leaving me with a ragged-looking form. Right now, I'm using "cols" attributes to approximate the width of the space (but of course this depends on browser, font choices, etc.). According to what I've read on this thread, the "width='100%'" style for <textarea> should do the trick, but it's not. Any ideas?

[JimmyP]

@Sjhanna Please start a new thread and include links/code...

[AutisticCuckoo]

Moved to a separate thread.

[JimmyP]

Thanks Tommy... Is sjhanna automatically subscribed to this thread then?

Anyway, sjhanna, could you post a link to the page you're having a problem with?

[AutisticCuckoo]

I've notified sjhanna via PM.

[sjhanna]

First, thanks for starting a new thread on this. I assumed it belonged under an existing thread, even though that was several months old.

I'll post the link in a little while, but the page isn't currently on-line (when it didn't work as I expected, I took it off the site). To protect my client's confidentiality, I first want to "sanitize" it a bit. Right now, I'm fighting another fire (thanks to IE6, of course), but I should be able to either post the code directly or post a test page in a day or so.

Thanks again for your willingness to help.