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Alb M
Alb M

Reputation: 141

Issue with textarea overflow:visible

i have a form with textareas like this:

<TEXTAREA NAME="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' COLS=40 ><pre><?php echo $row['tekniku_mesazh'];?></TEXTAREA>

Now, what i need to do is, i want the text to be visible inside it, i've tried:

textarea {
    overflow:visible;
}

But this won't work, why is that? Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2317

Answers (2)

Adrian Maire
Adrian Maire

Reputation: 14845

Possible problems:

1) If your $row['tekniku_mesazh'] string has html special chars, that may hide the text. escape them:

<TEXTAREA NAME="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' COLS=40 ><pre><?php echo htmlentities($row['tekniku_mesazh']);?></TEXTAREA>

2) The "pre" tag is not closed, that will not hide the content, but it's a mistake also:

<TEXTAREA NAME="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' COLS=40 ><pre><?php echo htmlentities($row['tekniku_mesazh']);?></pre></TEXTAREA>

3) It's only a small/perfectionist mistake: use lowercase for tags:

<textarea name="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' cols=40 ><pre><?php echo htmlentities($row['tekniku_mesazh']);?></pre></textarea>

You may also simplify the php by using the shorter sintax (but that is not a mistake):

<textarea name="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' cols=40 ><pre><?=htmlentities($row['tekniku_mesazh'])?></pre></textarea>

I hope it help you.

Best regards, Adrian M.

Upvotes: 0

Ludo237
Ludo237

Reputation: 1717

You forgot a <pre> and first you have to check if actually rows[] cointains something

so and the top of the script you should write

var_dump($row); // Just for Debugging

<textarea name="tekniku_mesazh" id='tekniku_mesazh' cols=40 ><pre><?php echo $row['tekniku_mesazh'];?></pre></textarea>

also you can use the id for the css

#tekniku_mesazh {
    overflow:visible;
}

ps: you should a simple name for css :)

Upvotes: 1

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