How to force Firefox to render textarea padding the same as in a div?

Question

I\'m attempting to provide a consistent width per line in pixels inside of a textarea across IE8, Firefox and Safari, so that text content wraps lines as predictably and con

Answer 1

I was facing the same problem and although my solution seemed like bending backwards too much for that one pixle, but it fixed the problem, here goes: To unify the width because of this weird behavior, Instead of using a div, i used a disabled textarea with a white background and a default cursor to act as a mimic the div.