Trouble with Input

[NickPaul]

Hey all,

Im having some trouble getting text to wrap when people are enterting text into a TextArea? Is it possible so that the text wraps as the type?

[matsko]

Text should wrap by default when a textarea has a specified width (in html or in css ... preferably css).

Are you testing the text by just typing in a long line of characters? Then it will not wrap because the textarea has not been styled to break each line.

In IE there is a word-wrap:break-word; style which will do this. I'm not sure if firefox has something similar. So the only way to get around this is to have a server-side process which will add a newline character to words that extend say 30 characters.

Even sitepoint does it:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

You see the gap between the a characters.