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I have ghost text in textfields that disappear when you focus on them using HTML5's placeholder attribute: <input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Enter email"/> I want to use that same mechanism to have multiline placeholder text in a textarea, maybe something like this: <textarea name="story" placeholder="Enter story\n next line\n more"></textarea> But those \n s show up in the text and don't cause newlines... Is there a way to have a multiline placeholder? UPDATE : The only way I got this to work was utilizing the jQuery Watermark plugin , which accepts HTML in the placeholder text: $(

I have a simple text area in a form like this: <textarea style="width:350px; height:80px;" cols="42" rows="5" name="sitelink"> <?php if($siteLink_val) echo $siteLink_val; ?> </textarea> I keep getting extra white space in this textarea . When I tab into it my cursor is like in the middle of the textarea and not in the beginning? What is the explanation? Look closely at your code. In it, there are already three line breaks, and a ton of white space before </textarea> . Remove those first so that there are no line breaks in between the tags any more. It might already do the trick. Well,

I would like to be able to limit the number of characters in a textarea. The method I am using works great in Google Chrome, but is slow in Firefox, and doesn't work in IE. Javascript: function len(){ t_v=textarea.value; if(t_v.length>180){ long_post_container.innerHTML=long_post; post_button.className=post_button.className.replace('post_it_regular','post_it_disabled'); post_button.disabled=true; } else{ long_post_container.innerHTML=""; post_button.className=post_button.className.replace('post_it_disabled','post_it_regular'); post_button.disabled=false; } if(t_v.length>186){ t_v=t_v.substring

Every time I develop a new form that includes a textarea I have the following dilemma when I need to specify its dimensions: Use CSS or use the textarea 's attributes cols and rows ? What are the pros and cons of each method? What are the semantics of using these attributes? How is it usually done? kogakure I recommend to use both. Rows and cols are required and useful if the client does not support CSS. But as a designer I overwrite them to get exactly the size I wish. The recommended way to do it is via an external stylesheet e.g. textarea { width: 300px; height: 150px; } <textarea> <