Text Area Alignment

numerical25

Im creating a form that has a text area field. My problem is when you click in the text area the cursor can appear anywhere in the text area. How do I fix it where the cursor appears at the top left of the text area ?

andreingenx

it could be a left, right, center, justify modification

Horizon88

It'd help if we could see the code you're using. See the link in my sig about bbcode to make sure you get the proper syntax highlighting too, please, as it makes it much easier to help you. 🙂

numerical25

No there is no align attribute on the tag.

cahva

You have to use javascript to do that. Just google "javascript textarea cursor position" and there should be various solutions to do that.

EDIT: For example this 🙂

numerical25

I know it helps to see code, but I didnt think you guys would need any code. I figured that, textarea cursor alignment is probably a very very common thing.

Like for example, when we post a message on this forum. We use a textarea box to type our messages in right ?? When we click anywhere in the textarea the cursor automatically is placed at the very top left of the textarea box. If you go to any website or any forum that has textarea fields, it does that. Which hints that they must put some attribute in to make it do that. Im sure its a very common issue.

Horizon88

No, it's not. They DEFAULT to that setting, so unless you've got some weird glitch going on, it's not supposed to be doing that. Which is why I asked to see your code.

cahva

If the textarea is empty, it really should go to top left corner always. It sounds to me that you have textarea full of spaces 🙂

leatherback

Either full of spaces, or you have some textarea => magic text area javascript plugin installed..?

NogDog

Make sure the <textarea> tag and its closing </textarea> tag are on the same line with nothing in between them, including spaces/newlines.

numerical25

See nogdog knows what im talkin about! thanks nogDog. See I didnt know putt spaces in text area caused that issue. thanks

Horizon88

If you'd shown us the code, we could have gotten that in less than the week it took. Don't forget to mark this resolved, please.