[thelist] How to control TEXTAREA font size, etc...?

Mr Dave squalid at libertysurf.co.uk
Sun Sep 10 16:39:09 CDT 2000


As far as I know, Netscape doesn't support textarea formatting. Maybe it will in
Netscape 6, haven't tried it though.
Cheers, Mr Dave.

Simon wrote:

> A good Sunday to all,
>
> I have some pages to put online where there will be
> a textarea field which has html code that someone can
> copy for their site. I'd like to be able to control how the
>  textarea contents is formatted, mostly so the size of
> the textarea field is about the same on the most
> popular browsers.
>
> I've used this CSS snippet in the document HEAD as follows...
>
> <style type="text/css" rev=stylesheet media=screen><!--
> textarea {
>   font-size: 9px;
>   text-align: left;
>   color: black;
>   font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
> }
> --></style>
>
> That works fine in IE5 but in Netscape 4.7 it seems to have no effect whatsoever.
>
> I've also tried making textarea a class like this...
>
> <style type="text/css" rev=stylesheet media=screen><!--
> .textarea {
>   font-size: 9px;
>   text-align: left;
>   color: black;
>   font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
> }
> --></style>
>
> and then using...
>
> <textarea name="txt" rows=10 cols=85 readonly
>   class=textarea>
>
> Also tried....
>
> <textarea name="txt" rows=10 cols=85 readonly
>   style="font-size:9px;   font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;">
>
> Nothing seems to have any effect on Netscape.
>
> Any hints or pointers appreciated,
>
> Simon
>
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