Steps to reproduce: 1) go to www.mozillazine.org 2) enter any talkback, scroll down to the "new post" form and enter some text in the TEXTAREA element: <textarea NAME="body" COLS="40" ROWS="8" WRAP="virtual"></textarea> Actual Results: The text doesn't wrap. It scrolls horizontally, instead. Expected Result: The text should wrap as in IE or Netscape 4.x I'm using mozilla 0.9.2 on windows 98 Bye

wfm Win2k 20010728

worksforme, build 2001-07-30-06 on Linux. Could you please try a recent nightly or 0.9.3 once it comes out?

wfm win98, 2001072808 trunk. "Words" longer than the width of the textarea are not broken, though, and cause horizontal scrolling. Can't say if that's correct behavior or not since it's a nonstandard extension. Also tested with 0.9.2, same results.

reporter: Could you give explicit steps (as to what to type) on how to reproduce this "bug"?

Put a long string with no spaces. In IE, the text always wraps, but in mozilla 0.9.2 the text scrolls horizontally. If a text with spaces is entered, it wraps correctly. I didn't know that wrap=virtual was a nonstandard extension, so I don't know if this is the correct behaviour of this type of textarea.

The WRAP attribute can be used to specify how to handle word-wrapping display in text input areas in forms. <TEXTAREA WRAP=OFF> -- the default setting - Wrapping doesn't happen. Lines are sent exactly as typed. <TEXTAREA WRAP=VIRTUAL> -- The display word-wraps, but long lines are sent as one line without new-lines. <TEXTAREA WRAP=PHYSICAL> -- The display word-wraps, and the text is transmitted at all wrap points. NOTE : Internet Explorer (version 3.0), by default wraps text in a <TEXTAREA> box, while Internet Explorer 4.0 supports the WRAP attribute. Also, these values have changed in Netscape 4.0 and Internet Explorer 4.0 and above to WRAP="off|soft|hard" respectively. (Courtesy HTML Reference Library (c) Stephen Le Hunte -- you can find this excellent reference using Google or by pressing F1 in Allaire HomeSite.)

confirming it seems that this works in ns4 (tested on win32,linux and mac). I'm not sure if this has been dealt with in another bug before (couldn't find one).

*** Bug 104592 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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An additional information to the wrapping in textareas: When specifying a cols="..."-value the wrap="off" is not interpreted. See the attachment that will follow. (Using mozilla0.9.6/Linux)

Oops, sorry, please compare bug 50633

dup *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 50633 ***

This is not a duplicate. In fact it's almost the opposite bug. In bug 50633 the text wraps when it's not supposed to. Here it does not wrap when it should.

*** Bug 116959 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Just jotting down some notes so that when I actually get to fix this bug, I can try and nail all the current problems: There are 5 possible values for wrap: 1. "off" - no wrapping at all, users must scroll to see lines that don't fit. 2. "hard" - lines and words extending past col max are wrapped. Output has extra newlines inserted into it to reflect wrapping on screen. 3. "physical" - same as "hard". 4. "soft" - lines and words extending past col max are wrapped. Output is *not* modified. 5. "virtual" - same as "soft". Current problems I see with my 01/28/02 Debug build: 1. wrap=off - Still allows a soft wrap of lines exceeding the col max. 2. wrap=soft|virtual|hard|physical - Should always wrap long lines and words that extend over the col limit. Right now long words are not forced to wrap. 3. wrap=physical - Should output just like wrap=hard, but it's currently outputing wrap=soft because of code in nsFormControlHelper::GetWrapPropertyEnum() which is mapping physical to soft. 4. wrap=off - Should always display horiz and vert scrollbars. 5. wrap=soft|virtual|hard|physical - Should always display vert scrollbars.

> 3. wrap=physical - Should output just like wrap=hard, but it's currently > outputing wrap=soft because of code in See bug 77110. Basically, no existing browser that's at all widely used treats "physical" as "hard"

This testcase shows how Javascript introduces spurious linebreaks when writing a long string to a textarea with wrap="virtual"

Moving to Mozilla 1.1. Engineers are overloaded with higher priority bugs.

See also bug 50633. It has additional info.

Hi, When I send something from this textarea (wrap=virtual) on few lines, reoult format is only 1 long line. It's on PC/Linux Mozilla 1.0 (ID: 2002052918) bye PaD

I couldn't get mozilla to wrap text for me using this line of code: <textarea name="modwiz_form[arg_text]" STYLE="width:550px; height:250px" wrap=soft> blah </textarea> By adding cols=x the textarea retained the deffined width of the style and wrapping worked as expected. <textarea name="modwiz_form[arg_text]" cols=1 STYLE="width:550px; height:250px" wrap=soft> blah </textarea>

andy, that would be bug 119915, not this bug.

I am experiencing this bug in Chimera 0.6. As I mentioned in bug 189103, I suspect there's some weird interaction with Chimera and some other (as yet unidentified) bit of software on my system that is bringing this bug to the surface, as I hadn't seen it until recently.

FYI, I just attached a patch (attachment 127892 [details] [diff] [review]) to bug 104674 which allows us to wrap words that exceed the content area width which could be used to address problem 2 described in comment 16 above.

*** Bug 213167 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

*** Bug 257466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

(In reply to comment #27) > *** Bug 257466 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** (In reply to comment #25) > FYI, I just attached a patch (attachment 127892 [details] [diff] [review]) to bug 104674 which allows us > to wrap words that exceed the content area width which could be used to address > problem 2 described in comment 16 above. Textareas still don't wrap right. If there are no spaces in a line the wrapping is broken. Example below: aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

wrap=hard still doesn't break long words.

WFM as of Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3. Text properly wraps mid-word in wrap="virtual" (actually any wrap that's not "off").