textarea problem

why text inside textarea is never placed at the top

[smokin]

Greetings all,

I have a minor problem in that whenever I place dynamically generated text inside a textarea (rows=7 cols=20), the text is always positioned in the middle of the textarea. I would like to know how I can postion this text at the top of the textarea. Any ideas guys?

Thanks in advance for any solutions provided.

Smokin

[Marcia]

smokin, since this is the HTML forum and you mentioned dynamically generated text, what scripting language are you using?

Oh, and welcome to the board!

[smokin]

Thanks Marcia,

I am currently using ASP. Sorry for posting in the wrong forum, I just assume that this was a HTML bug.

Umar

[Nick_W]

The text must be inserted directly after the <textarea> tag like this:

<textarea>$tezt</textarea>

Nick

[smokin]

Nick, that is way I have done it also

[Lisa]

What does the view source look like? Do you see new lines between <textarea> and $tezt?

[Nick_W]

Yeah, let's see the code. This really shouldn't be a problem....

Nick

[smokin]

Lisa, there are no new lines between <textarea> and $tezt when viewing source.

[Brett_Tabke]

Then there is something interfering. <textarea>value</textarea> should display top left in the form window.

Javascript or css on the page?

[smokin]

yes there is javascript:

<TEXTAREA rows=7 cols=20 name="message" class="txt" style="font-weight: 600;" onfocus="document.frmContact.message.style.background='#FFFFFF', document.frmContact.enquiry.disabled=false" onblur="document.frmContact.message.style.background='silver'">

do you think this could be the problem?

Smokin

[smokin]

I took out the javascript but it didnt make a difference. any other ideas?

smokin

[Nick_W]

can you show the whole code from <textarea> to </textarea>?

Nick

[smokin]

Here you go Nick:
<%if Request("enquiry") = "Send Comments" then
%>
<td>
<TEXTAREA rows=7 cols=20 name="message" class="txt" style="font-weight: 600;" onfocus="document.frmContact.message.style.background='#FFFFFF', document.frmContact.enquiry.disabled=false" onblur="document.frmContact.message.style.background='silver'">
Thank you for your comments..
</TEXTAREA>
</td>
<%else%>
<td>
<TEXTAREA rows=7 cols=20 name="message" class="txt" onfocus="document.frmContact.message.style.background='#FFFFFF', document.frmContact.enquiry.disabled=false" onblur="document.frmContact.message.style.background='silver'">
</TEXTAREA>
</td>
<%end if%>

smokin

[Nick_W]

Try this:

<TEXTAREA rows=7 cols=20 name="message" class="txt" style="font-weight: 600;" onfocus="document.frmContact.message.style.background='#FFFFFF', document.frmContact.enquiry.disabled=false" onblur="document.frmContact.message.style.background='silver'">Thank you for your comments..</TEXTAREA>

[smokin]

already tried that, still no difference

smokin

[Pushycat]

Shoouldn't the CSS also be posted? I mean, his basic problem stated that text inside a textarea is positioned in the middle. I suspect there is a text-align:middle or something like that in the txt class he's assigning to the textarea.

[Nick_W]

Quite possibly but the fact that the message text is on a new line suggests a simpler explanation. Guess we wait and see....

Nick

[Nick_W]

Oops, missed Smokin's reply. Yeah, let's see the css!

Nick

[smokin]

txt { COLOR: #254E0E; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ccff99; border-width:2px; border-style: solid; border-color: #254E0E; }

[aspdaddy]

Hi,

Did you make the form in Vis Interdev?
If so check if there are tab characters inserted in the html.