Text box option/attribute not wrapping

[sonicparke]

I have an attribute that is a 7 row text box 50 characters wide. Is there a way to force it to wrap to a different line after 50 characters?

example

Thanks!

[Ajeh]

It already does in FireFox ... it does not in IE ...

[sonicparke]

That's interesting because I'm using Firefox and the box is contained (I can see all 4 sides) in FF but the text stays on one line. But in IE the box runs into and behind the right column yet the text wraps as it should.

Really weird stuff.

[DrByte]

You probably need to force your textbox widths to be somewhat narrower, using the stylesheet. It appears to be bleeding into the right column, and thus part of the content is getting hidden ...

[kuroi]

Like Linda I see the text wrapping as it approaches 50 characters in Firefox. The exception being when you have a single word longer than 50 characters when it doesn't want to break it.

Internet Explorer is more of a concern since, as Dr Byte has observed, the box is much wider and disappears behind the right hand column. This can be solved by removing the width setting from the textfield style

TEXTAREA {

float: left;
margin: auto;
display: block;
width: 95%;

}

Unfortunately you'll only get a 48 character wide box as, unlike FF, IE doesn't make any allowance for the scroll bar, but I'm afraid that only Bill Gates can fix that one.

[sonicparke]

Like Linda I see the text wrapping as it approaches 50 characters in Firefox. The exception being when you have a single word longer than 50 characters when it doesn't want to break it.

Internet Explorer is more of a concern since, as Dr Byte has observed, the box is much wider and disappears behind the right hand column. This can be solved by removing the width setting from the textfield styleUnfortunately you'll only get a 48 character wide box as, unlike FF, IE doesn't make any allowance for the scroll bar, but I'm afraid that only Bill Gates can fix that one.

Ah yes...the style. I was workign in it all night bit it never hit me to look there. Thanks a million!