Difference between hard wrap and soft wrap?

Question

I am in the process of writing a text editor. After looking at other text editors I have noticed that a number of them refer to a \"soft\" versus \"hard\" wrap. What is th

Answer 1

soft : The text in the textarea is not wrapped when submitted in a form. This is default

hard : The text in the textarea is wrapped (contains newlines) when submitted in a form. When "hard" is used, the cols attribute must be specified

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