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1. shadow
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Hi,
   Site: http://www.os42.com
   So I managed to sort out the xhtml validation for my page but now I am looking into the css validation and have hit a big snag with this one:-
   textarea {
width: cols="70";
border: 1px solid #ccc;
background-color: #fffef1;
}
   The width reference was put in to stop the comment box from opening right across the page. However, the W3C css validator pumps out this error message
   Line: 0 Context : textarea
   Invalid number : widthcols is not a width value : cols
   Line: 0 Context : textarea
   Parse Error - cols="70";
   Line: 0
   Parse Error - : 1px solid #ccc; background-color: #fffef1; } #commentlist
   Has anyone else had this problem? I gather there must be a different way of making the textarea stay within the body of the page.

2. podz
   Support Maven
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Tried a percentage ?

3. shadow
   Moderator
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Thanks Podz - seems to have done the trick - it doesn't work if you have " " around it though, if anyone should try it.
   Just keep it as width: 70%;
   Slowly but surely the world begins to spin again....:):)

4. Beel
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   A width percentage in the css will not work for IE. I have been forced to rely solely on setting cols="70" in the tag.

5. Millennium
   Member
   Posted 5 years ago #

   Try "width:70ex" instead. That should approximate the "cols='70'" thing you were using.

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