CSS Text Area Element. I guess you are using these tricks on css tricks too ^^Yeah, it’s mac-only thing. Both in focus and non-focused states.I have a question about the new “placeholder” text: Does that text get passed in the POST/GET array if the user does not enter anything? That should be definitely bookmarked.Nice tips…I really learn something very important thing about textarea in context of front endIf you want a more generic jQuery fallback for the HTML5 placeholder attribute, feel free to use This post helped me a lot ,although I was aware some of the tricks mentioned above but I Placeholder tricks was the one which I found very useful as I have touched html5 yet.Thanks for providing so nicely documented css tricks for textarea tag.#4 on the iPhone removes the inner shadow on text boxes. I totally overlooked the overflow:auto possibility. These Tricks are really useful :) Thanks for that!Oh man Chris, you can’t believe how much of a pain IE was to me with the overflow. I have not yet found a way to remove it from either Firefox or Opera, but WebKit browsers attached a little UI element to the bottom right of text areas that users can use to click-and-drag to resize a textarea. Cheers.Agreed, this is a great tip. If you have important information to share, please I always used overflow:hidden and sort of hoped people won’t go back scrolling, because I really hated the automatic scrollbar that was always there even without any text. The default 1px solid bolder is replaced with a thicker beveled border. Those things get annoying sometimes.Great article Chris! It would really be helpful if not, otherwise it would cause extra validation when checking for blank fields that are “required” fields.Hey Chris, thanks for sharing a couple of really nice tricks with us. I’ve tried:Even tried removing ‘vertical-align: middle’ from the overall input field and changing to top but the text still appears in the middle of the area.If you use “overflow: auto;” in the textarea, it will act like “white-space: nowrap;”.Any ideas anybody on my problem whereby I can’t seem to make text start at the top of a text-area box instead of in the vertical center?a) You’re using the jQuery data() method, but you really don’t need to. An internal CSS is used to define a style for a single HTML page.

This fun CSS snippet styles your textarea to look like a piece of paper from a composition notebook.

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While using this site, you agree to have read and accepted our A textarea is an element on a webpage that you can type into. You can add a background-image to a textarea like you can any other element. Other OS have differents default ways to show which element is focused.As Sumeet says though, other browsers do different things, some other like chrome do use a different glow. You can take control of your textareas and style them with CSS, just like any other element: This comment thread is closed. An internal CSS is defined in the section of an HTML page, within a