this does not works with Opera 5, 6

TEXTAREA {
    margin: 10px 0px 0px 1%;
    width: 70%;
    background-color: #ccffcc;
    font-family: Small Fonts;
    font-size: 12px;
}

though Opera 5, 6 sets the font- values
Opera fails to set 'width' value! why ?
actually i don't want to use TEXTAREA of fixed size; hence i m
not using width: 500px; or some value for 'cols'
what is the conceptual measure of 'cols' !?
other wierd problem is Opera though sets margin-left: 1%; but
fails at margin-top:10px;
Opera also not responds to wrap="off"
At last background-color value is also not showing.
when i validated the HTML, Homesite ( 5.5 ) said tag "textarea" doesn't have an attribute: "wrap" in currently active versions.
( doctype is set to HTML4.01 transitional )

MSIE, Netscape and Mozilla are kind to all of these TEXTAREA formatting.

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About 'cols':

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interac...-cols-TEXTAREA

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This happens on an outdated version of a third-party browser? I wouldn't lose any sleep over it. I'd be concerned with what Opera 7.5 is capable of. If someone is smart enough to use a third-party browser they are also more likely to keep that browser up to date.

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Perhaps you ned to set the position to absolute or relative, a lot of elements won't accept sizing without that in IE, no experience of Opera though.

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<TEXTAREA style="position:absolute;"> solved width:70%; for Opera but annoyed other more important browsers.

anshul, posting snips of code isn't really helpful when it comes to issues like this. Post a link to the full page, or even better a test case, instead, please. The textarea isn't the only thing you have there, I guess.

When it comes to colors, fonts and so on, forms are special. The amount of styling that's possible differs from browser to browser, partly because in some cases the form controls are borrowed from the OS and not browser widgets.

Opera 7.5 allows limited styling of forms. I don't remember but I *think* Opera 5 allowed very little, if any.

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