Name
WRAP — NN 2 IE 4 HTML n/a
Synopsis
WRAP=”wrapType"
Required
The WRAP
attribute tells the browser whether it
should wrap text in a TEXTAREA
element and whether
wrapped text should be submitted to the server with soft returns
converted to hard carriage returns. Navigator and Internet Explorer
don’t agree fully on the possible values, and the HTML
specification is silent on the subject. Even so, there are
cross-browser solutions.
If WRAP
is turned off (the default), the
TEXTAREA
element activates the horizontal
scrollbar as characters exceed the original column width. A press of
the Return/Enter key causes the cursor to advance to the
next line back at the left margin. To submit the content without the
word-wrapped soft returns converted to hard carriage returns (in
other words, submitted as typed), set the WRAP
attribute by including the attribute like a Boolean value. To convert
the soft returns to hard carriage returns (and thus preserving the
word-wrapped formatting in the submitted content), set the value of
WRAP
to hard
. Both Navigator
and Internet Explorer recognize this setting, whereas Navigator does
not recognize IE’s value of physical
.
Example
<TEXTAREA NAME="comments" WRAP></TEXTAREA>
Value
The presence of the WRAP
attribute (without any
assigned value) engages word wrapping (and filters soft returns
before being submitted). A value of hard
also
engages word wrapping and converts soft returns to CR-LF characters
in the value submitted to the server. A value of
off
or no ...
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