By default Zend Form Text elements don't have a width specified. Textarea elements have a default of rows="24" and cols="80". But when I set a different value...
$body = new Zend_Form_Element_Textarea('body');
$body->setLabel('Body:')
->setRequired(true)
->setAttrib('COLS', '40')
->setAttrib('ROWS', '4');
$this->addElement($body);
...the attributes are only added, not changed:
<textarea name="body" id="body" COLS="40" ROWS="4" rows="24" cols="80">
What is the correct way to specify a width and height of a textarea element, and the column width of a text element?
Solution:
Apparently, you can't specify html attributes in capital letters or else it will add duplicate attributes.
To change the height and width of a text area element:
$textarea = new Zend_Form_Element_Textarea('body');
$textarea
->setAttrib('cols', '40')
->setAttrib('rows', '4');
To change the width of a text element:
$text = new Zend_Form_Element_Text('subject');
$text->setAttrib('size', '40');