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Bug 10666 - 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
Summary: textarea.cols should default to 20, and textarea.rows should default to 2. I...
Status: CLOSED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2010-09-21 01:07 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-04 14:32 UTC (History)
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Description contributor 2010-09-21 01:07:49 UTC 
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
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2010-09-28 23:43:12 UTC 
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Status: Accepted
Change Description: see diff given below
Rationale: Concurred with reporter's comments.
Comment 2 contributor 2010-09-28 23:45:10 UTC 
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