RE: RE:(2) fixing what textareas do to input

[httptech]

heh that's how the textareas work on Perl Monks (at least in my browser)... I don't find it annoying in the least. I rather like being able to choose where my lines break. I find it annoying when the browser wants to choose for me.

[swiftone]

True, but in some situations it isn't good. For example, I use Textreas to allow editing of text snippets on our page. Since the user will be cut-and-pasting text, I don't want to rely on the linebreaks in it.

[httptech]

But then aren't you ending up with 2 sets of linebreaks? The linebreaks added by the user's paste job, and then the linebreaks added by the browser?

So you end up output like:

Here is a line break where my
browser
decided to break the line, but
I
thought it would actually be
here.

[swiftone]

No, only because I strip any linebreaks not associated with HTML tags. Think of it like the non-standard WRAP=VIRTUAL tag, which shows the word wrapping without putting it in.

I'd LOVE for that to become standard. Let the user pick where the linebreaks are, and not have to scroll one massive line all the time to edit.