use cols/rows or style-width/height to specify dimensions of textarea?

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what is considered best practice when specifying the dimensions of an HTML textarea? only using cols/rows (which i think are mandatory with html strict 4.01) or specifying width and height using css properties? or even setting cols/rows for validity and then overriding the actual size using css?

score 5 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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Please see this question: Should I size a textarea with CSS width / height or HTML cols / rows attributes?

I agree with the top answer. You use rows/cols in case CSS is not supported; if width or height are specified using CSS, they override the value derived from rows/cols.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:51

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answered Feb 20 '11 at 10:57

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use cols/rows or style-width/height to specify dimensions of textarea?

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