mozilla textarea wrap's ...

By David Hansson on April 2, 2002 12:15 PM

There's a simple fix for that:

1. <textarea style="width: 100%;" wrap="virtual" />
2. <textarea cols="" style="width: 100%;" wrap="virtual" />

Option two has cols="", which makes Mozilla honor the wrapping attribute.

By Ask Bjoern Hansen on April 2, 2002 12:24 PM

Yay, that works. Thanks a lot!

By Anonymous on October 27, 2003 5:45 PM

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By Anonymous on December 8, 2003 11:43 AM

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By jordy on February 22, 2004 3:11 AM

I remember a day when musicians played their instruments by hand!
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mozilla does work, atleast in 1.6 on linux.
however, I do have to implement

By VK on March 4, 2005 12:25 PM

This did not work for me using firefox. Anybody else have any suggestions?

By Anonymous on March 4, 2005 2:38 PM

1. <textarea style="width: 100%;" wrap="virtual" />
2. <textarea cols="" style="width: 100%;" wrap="virtual" />

:)) missinterpreted the new standard huh?? Naughty naughty.... only simple tags need to have " />" at the end...

I know I'm waaaaay off topic... but I was just getting sssssoooooo bored with coding....

By Anonymous on April 3, 2006 7:22 AM

it does not wokring in Firefox 1.5.0.1, any other idea. please mailme:agphoto24@yahoo.com

By John Adams on March 9, 2007 11:27 PM

I have a great fix for Firefox, Opera, and any other Mozilla-based browsers that can't render forms properly:

Use INTERNET EXPLORER! That's the browser that comes as part of the Microsoft Windows Operating System. You see, when you develop an operatibg system, you (not some geek in Geneva) get to set the standards. Internet Explorer is designed to be FORGIVABLE of many coding errors that would drive Mozilla browsers up a wall. You see, the standards aren't set by W3C, but rather they are set by Microsoft. If you can't live with this then invent your own operating system an d market it.

Sometimes I think that many of you geeks are masochists at heart, because you seem to keep coming back for more everytime you get burned by a Mozilla browser. Again, W3C doesn't set any rules that Microsoft is bound to respect, because the Windows operating System is owned by Microsoft, not W3C, so Bill and Steve just chuckle and proceed to do things as they wish. In the meantime the geeks spend much of their time hunting for fixes and patches so that somehow their Mozilla (Godzilla?) browser can be made to work with a Gateszilla system.

Hang it up, already! Did you not learn anything from the Netscape Navigator experience? Say now to crapware!

By Jeff Harris on April 6, 2007 11:04 AM

Jeff Harris:

Well that last post was so insightful. A few things come to mind.

1) Internet Explorer's security team choose Swiss Cheese as their inspiration.

2) Imagine what the web would be like if we were all using Internet Explorer 1.0. Without competition IE would never change. How long was it between the release of IE 6 to IE 7? It took Firefox's popularity to get IE 7 developed.

3) Yes, if you write an OS that has +90% of the market you do set the standard, no argument there. That doesn't mean they are setting a good standard! MS has a long history of poor standards. Its evident in all their software, from OS to Web Browsers.

4) Just because MS sets the standard doesn't mean others can't and won't exceed their standards (which is often the case).

5) This goes without saying, but its worth mentioning. John Adams is a close minded jackass.
I get a grin on my face when I think about people like him using IE and other MS software. They get what they deserves, all the viruses and spyware that go along with the Market leader!

Have fun with IE John!

By Tom P on April 18, 2007 1:19 AM

Jon Adams,
People use mozilla because IE is notoriously insecure via executing activex controls and such. I personally dont want to use a browser thats capable of modifying my system files, do you?

By Matthias on May 2, 2007 9:11 AM

So, does anybody has a solution to fix this wrap problem ? Im searching the whole day, but I cant find any solution. On other pages it works to use my mozilla and the wrap works, so there has to be a solution. Thanks in advance

By Sunny_Chau on June 5, 2007 12:16 PM

I have text in text area without white space and hence even the wrap="virtual" doesn't work in that case for Firefox.

example textarea has following characteristics:
'rows' => 4,
'cols' => 80,
'wrap' => virtual

but it doesn't wrap text without space more than 80.
Thanks in advance!

By nuntius on September 16, 2007 12:15 AM

This is maybe the one bug I have found in Firefox for over two years. So the idiot talking all the crap about using IE can shut it! IE has made life a living hell for compliant developers for years. In every single project I have to code 5-10 workarounds just so the lambs using IE can see the pages! (Hmm let's see: css bugs; application embedded forms bleeding through layers; poor JavaScript implementation; png32 graphics not supported... should I continue?) Plus let's not forget that in IE the texarea resizes when you try sizing with css! What a bunch of BS!

wrap='virtual' worked for me!

By wayne on October 1, 2007 7:57 AM

IE sure has bugs, but Firefox has as well.

Why in Firefox can't I color my scrollbars the way I want them to be? Why the tables have to have a grey border and disregard the color attribute? Why modal dialogs do not work? Why vbScript cannot be executed? Why Flash player playback is so slow?

Firefox is still away from being the best browser. One great feature I think Firefox has, is the extensions which is much easier to code than ActiveX controls but can be malicious as well if you don't know the developer.

Browsers need to serve the same cause, serve the developer and the user alike. They need to set a web standard and move on. As developers, we can't be "browser fans/fanatics", the user can use what is more comfortable to him/her and we must serve him/her the content right, as it is meant to be viewed.

By Anonymous on November 27, 2007 10:14 PM

This is maybe the one bug I have found in Firefox for over two years. So the idiot talking all the crap about using IE can shut it! IE has made life a living hell for compliant developers for years. In every single project I have to code 5-10 workarounds just so the lambs using IE can see the pages! (Hmm let's see: css bugs; application embedded forms bleeding through layers; poor JavaScript implementation; png32 graphics not supported... should I continue?) Plus let's not forget that in IE the texarea resizes when you try sizing with css! What a bunch of BS!

By Cary on December 20, 2007 9:23 AM

Wayne,

You ask, "Why vbScript cannot be executed?"

VBScript is a Microsoft proprietary language. Tell Microsoft to make it freely available, and, *IF YOU SUCCEED*, you can bet that it will be in the next release of Firefox.

IE6 sat without any development after 2001 for about 6 years. They did a huge disservice to the computing community (which is pretty much the non-third world, and a big part of the third world) by not making it more compliant. Now IE7 is such a piece of crap that anyone with any understanding of their computer (which is pretty much a small portion of the planet, unfortunately) should be moving on to Firefox. If there weren't so much crap on the Internet that required IE, then it would be easy to move people from IE. But stupid developers just say "there was no spec that required it run on anything but IE, so I just used all the proprietary IE extensions so that my life would be easier." They do themselves and the rest of the world a HUGE disservice. Even if it doesn't say so in the spec, the managers that approve the spec need to be educated about the mistakes they are making.

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