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

[Simon]

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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