[whatwg] Textarea wrap=off

Tab Atkins Jr. jackalmage at gmail.com
Fri Aug 14 07:02:52 PDT 2009


On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:22 AM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Aug 2009, Tab Atkins Jr. wrote:
>>
>> Proposal
>> ========
>> Add the "off" state to the @wrap attribute for textareas.
>
> 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

I can't load the full spec - it locks my browser - and I can't find
any relevant text at
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/forms.html#the-textarea-element.
 Is there some other place I should be looking in the multipage spec?

~TJ



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