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Are you using CSS to override your width setting?<br />
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&lt;html&gt;<br />
&lt;head&gt;<br />
&lt;style tyype=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;!--<br />
textarea &nbsp; &nbsp; { width: 200px; }<br />
--&gt;<br />
&lt;/style&gt;<br />
&lt;/head&gt;<br />
&lt;body&gt;<br />
&lt;form&gt;<br />
&lt;textarea rows=&quot;2&quot; name=&quot;mytext&quot; cols=&quot;20&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;<br />
&lt;/form&gt;<br />
&lt;/body&gt;<br />
&lt;/html&gt;<br />

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Are you using CSS to override your width setting?

<html>
<head>
<style tyype="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body>
<form>
<textarea rows="2" name="mytext" cols="20"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>

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I am having problems getting a textarea box to use a concistent size across many different browsers. &nbsp;I have used CSS to set the font details which seems to make it work well in recent Windows IE and Netscape browsers, but Mac browsers seem to blow it all out of the water.<br />
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The textarea boxes are expanding way too wide, and are messing with the page layout. I don't mind doing some javascript browser and OS checking and putting in some conditional code, if that is what it takes.<br />
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(I'm not worried about Netscape 4 or earlier) &nbsp;Any suggestions would be welcome.
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I am having problems getting a textarea box to use a concistent size across many different browsers.  I have used CSS to set the font details which seems to make it work well in recent Windows IE and Netscape browsers, but Mac browsers seem to blow it all out of the water.

The textarea boxes are expanding way too wide, and are messing with the page layout. I don't mind doing some javascript browser and OS checking and putting in some conditional code, if that is what it takes.

(I'm not worried about Netscape 4 or earlier)  Any suggestions would be welcome.

textarea size problems in Mac IE browser

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