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enter does not work in textarea in Internet Explorer 8.....

Answer 1

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This article says Internet Explorer ignores line breaks with white-space: nowrap.

Their fix is to use white-space: pre. Does that get you your desired behavior?

jimyi 2009-08-15 16:33:06

No, it is the same.

Aftershock 2009-08-15 18:09:51

Answer 2

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The available options (found here: Quirksmode.org), are:

normal
nowrap, IE5.5+
pre, IE6+
pre-line IE8
pre-wrap IE8

It might be worth using white-space: normal (I don't have IE with which to experiment, but I imagine that normal would be available by default if it's possible to alter the state to abnormal).

Edited, with respect to the OP's comment/response.

Are you using a doctype? (I recommend using <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">)

Assuming that you are, is there any chance you could post a link to a demo-page? Or perhaps post your (x)html and css, to see if there's some manner of style-override, or typo, preventing the css being applied?

David Thomas 2009-08-15 19:18:27

pre-line is not ok, it does not keep spaces and tabs. I tried pre, it does not work. Normal is the wrapped mode, that did not help either. I looked at quirksmode.org. It claims IE8 is fully compatible with respect to pre and nowrap. It does not seem to me so. At least for textareas.

Aftershock 2009-08-15 22:13:28

Answer 3

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Does it have to be CSS solution? If not, you could assign attribute wrap="off" for textarea.

Pett 2010-02-01 11:29:10

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