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Subject:    Re: scrollbars for <textarea style="width:100%; height:100%;">
From:       idavey () my-dejanews ! com (Ian Davey)
Date:       2001-04-30 8:51:15
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In article <9ccsd0$pp73@secnews.netscape.com>, "Jesse Ruderman" <jruderman@hmc.edu> wrote:
>> >Cool, no scrollbars if I do
>> ><textarea style=" border:0; width:100%; height:100%; margin:
>> >0px"></textarea>.
>> >
>> >Is it a bug that I have to set extra styles to get a textarea without a
>> >scrollbar?
>>
>> Nope, because you're triggering quirks mode which is supposed to give a
>> "buggier" rendering that matches older browser behaviour. If you want to
>fix
>> it without the above style, just use an appropriate doctype, i.e.
>
>Hmm, that seems to kill the height:100% and make the textarea only be two
>lines tall.

That'll be because height="100%" isn't a valid HTML attribute. You can try 
using:

<textarea style="height: 100%">
</textarea>

But the height is 100% of the containing block. So it'll only work if the 
style is set on the containing block by css, i.e.

<div style="height: 200px">
<textarea style="height: 100%">
</textarea>
</div>

or

<table>
<tr><td style="height: 200px">
<textarea style="height: 100%">
</textarea>
</td></tr>
</table>

If you do:
<div style="height: 200px">
<p><textarea style="height: 100%">
</textarea></p>
</div>

Then it will shrink again as <p> is the containing block and doesn't have a 
height set,

ian.

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