In *this page*, when I type into the textarea, there is no linebreaking. I have to hit return manually, or else I get lines like this. I'm not sure what category this falls under... so it's Layout...

How come text areas don't word wrap?

Setting all current Open/Normal to M4.

See also related bug #1829.

per leger, assigning QA contacts to all open bugs without QA contacts according to list at http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Browser

*** Bug 4027 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is due to a non-standard Netscape extension to HTML 4.0, I believe. I'm marking bug 4027 as a duplicate of this one (if anything just to cut down on the number of open bugs).

HTML 4.0 is a bit vague on this. The spec defines the cols attribute as: This attribute specifies the visible width in average character widths. Users should be able to enter longer lines than this, so user agents should provide some means to scroll through the contents of the control when the contents extend beyond the visible area. User agents may wrap visible text lines to keep long lines visible without the need for scrolling. MSIE5 and NN4 both return the line breaks that have been wrapped by the UA as if they were typed.

FWIW I strongly agree with dbaron on this one - I would very much like to see default behavior in textareas something like "always having the wrap=hard attribute there" - that is, automatically wrap down to the next line instead of forcing people to scroll. I'm cc'ing german@netscape.com on this in hopes of getting one of the UI/UE people to come down on this issue one way or the other...

WIN32 textarea now soft wrap their contents. This makes the textarea's compatible with the default for NN4 and MSIE5. There is the remaining issue of supporting the non-standard wrap attribute on textareas. I am moving this bug to M6 for resolution of this remaining issue.

*** Bug 5985 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

This is kind of a bugzilla blocker. It leads to all these messy long lines in Bugzilla whenever I use Mozilla to add to bugs, unless I remember to hit enter at the end of lines (doing so now...). Hope it's fixed soon. I was tempted to raise the priority, but didn't.

*** Bug 8108 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 8307 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Steve, I'm re-assinging text area related bugs to you. Even though this bug is specific to the native text area widget, Ender will have to address the same issue.

M10

*** Bug 10377 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

fixed summary

If Bugzilla is using a Netscape-only extension, perhaps a bug should be filed and it should do the wrapping itself. Not that I'm saying the extension shouldn't still be implemented in Mozilla.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 8984 ***