10666 2010-09-21 01:07:49 +0000 textarea.cols should default to 20, and textarea.rows should default to 2. IE8 and WebKit do this; Opera defaults to 0 and Gecko defaults to -1. Of the three behaviors, IE/WebKit makes the most sense, and I'm submitting a patch to get Gecko to line up w 2010-10-04 14:32:49 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified Other other CLOSED FIXED http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-textarea-cols P3 normal --- 1 contributor ian ayg ian mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 39124 0 contributor 2010-09-21 01:07:49 +0000 Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#attr-textarea-cols Comment: textarea.cols should default to 20, and textarea.rows should default to 2. IE8 and WebKit do this; Opera defaults to 0 and Gecko defaults to -1. Of the three behaviors, IE/WebKit makes the most sense, and I'm submitting a patch to get Gecko to line up with it. Test case for browser behavior here: data:text/html,<!doctype html><script>alert(document.createElement("textarea").rows + " " + document.createElement("textarea").cols);</script> Posted from: 68.175.61.233 39840 1 ian 2010-09-28 23:43:12 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments. 39841 2 contributor 2010-09-28 23:45:10 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r5542. Check-in comment: better defaults for textarea.rows and .cols http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=5541&to=5542