HTML Textarea horizontal scroll

Question

I would like to provide a horizontal scroll to a textarea in my HTML page. The scroll should appear without wrapping, if I type a long line without a line break. A few friends suggested using overflow-y CSS attribute, which did not work for me. The browsers that I use are IE 6+ and Mozilla 3+.

Answer 1

Try these:

overflow: scroll; 
overflow-y: scroll; 
overflow-x: scroll; 
overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical;

there should also be a -moz-scrollbars-horizontal

Answer 2

I figured out to do it in a non-W3c-compliant way and it is working in both IE and Firefox and incidentally in Chrome too.

I added the attribute wrap with value off, that is <textarea cols=80 rows=12 wrap='off'> is what I have done.

Answer 3

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