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http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#attr-textarea-wrap defines the wrap attribute but it does not define wrap=off, a value supported by at least Opera, Firefox, and Internet Explorer. (There are some pages out there more values are supported in some user agents, but it seems soft, hard, and off are the required ones.)
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Status shows "fixed" but wrap='off' is still missing from the specification[1][2]. <textarea wrap='off'> is very well-supported, certainly by Chrome (and therefore almost certainly any WebKit browser), Firefox (and so presumably Gecko-based browsers), Opera, and IE. It should be documented. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/the-button-element.html#attr-textarea-wrap [2] http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-textarea-wrap)