I am currently trying to justify text in a textarea, unfortunately the CSS:
text-align: justify;
Doesn't work on the text like center, left and right do. I've tried this in both Firefox 3 and IE 7 with no luck.
Is there any way around this?
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A:
I believe that common practice is to use the TEXTAREA for input without worying about justification; and then, once the input is processed (i.e. the FORM is submitted, or an event of the TEXTAREA is captured), the contents are displayed in a non-editable text element (such as P, SPAN, TD) where the text-align: justify; style attribute will be honored.
Ken Paul
2009-01-09 04:17:24
I agree, the client is after this as part of the design though, so unfortunately that that's not appropriate for the situation. Thanks though.
Matt
2009-01-09 04:27:55
Then I think the simple answer is NO. A Google search on "textarea justify" shows lots of similar questions with no usable solution except maybe to replace the `TEXTAREA` with a Rich Text widget.
Ken Paul
2009-01-09 04:32:37
Thats what I had come up with as well before asking here unfortunately. Thanks for your help.
Matt
2009-01-11 06:24:22
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A:
i dont think this is possible in the html textarea element. you might be able to use some sort of wysiwyg editor (editable div). ie. fckeditor
John Boker
2009-01-09 04:22:07
Thats what I've found as well trawling through Google search results, just hoping that someone here may know of something I might have missed. Thanks.
Matt
2009-01-09 04:28:56