How do I set the width and height of a textarea using CSS?

Question

Here is my css:

.editor-field textarea {
    width : 400;
    height : 100px;
}

Here is the markup from my view:

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Answer 1

ASP MVC default project has site.css with max-width:280 for textarea -- remove that and try something like this

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.ComicText, new { style = "width: 700px; height:150px;" })