[whatwg] Textarea wrap=off
Ian Hickson
ian at hixie.ch
Fri Aug 14 02:22:03 PDT 2009
On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>
> Proposal
> ========
> Add the "off" state to the @wrap attribute for textareas.
>
> Explanation
> ===========
> The "off" state prevents a textarea from wrapping text at all while
> displaying. Instead, text that is too long for the textarea trigger a
> horizontal scrollbar, but stays on one line. The only way for text to
> drop to a new line is with an actual carriage return.
>
> The value of a textarea with wrap=off is the same as wrap=soft.
>
> Reasoning
> =========
> Every UA I've tested (FF3.5, IE7, Opera10B2, Safari4, Chrome2) already
> supports it. They offer slightly different displays of a wrap=off
> textarea, but the basic functionality as described above is identical
> and seemingly interoperable. Adding this to the spec shouldn't
> require any additional work from the UAs, it would merely be
> recognizing and enshrining a facility that is already common to all of
> them.
The "off" value is already defined in HTML5 for the purpose of rendering
[1]. However, it isn't a conforming value, because it appears to have no
purpose other than a visual presentational effect.
[1] Last paragraph of:
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-textarea-element-0
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