enter does not work in textarea in Internet Explorer 8

Question

When I press enter in a textarea which has whitespace attribute is set to nowrap through css, it is ineffective. No new line is created. Instread a simple whitespace appears

Answer 1

The available options (found here: Quirksmode.org), are:

• normal
• nowrap, IE5.5+
• pre, IE6+
• pre-line IE8
• pre-wrap IE8

It might be worth using white-space: normal (I don't have IE with which to experiment, but I imagine that normal would be available by default if it's possible to alter the state to abnormal).

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Edited, with respect to the OP's comment/response.

Are you using a doctype? (I recommend using )

Assuming that you are, is there any chance you could post a link to a demo-page? Or perhaps post your (x)html and css, to see if there's some manner of style-override, or typo, preventing the css being applied?