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Except of course that that leads to annoyed users :)
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RE: RE:(2) fixing what textareas do to input
by httptech (Chaplain) on Jun 05, 2000 at 22:08 UTC
    heh that's how the textareas work on Perl Monks (at least in my browser)... I don't find it annoying in the least. I rather like being able to choose where my lines break. I find it annoying when the browser wants to choose for me.
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      True, but in some situations it isn't good. For example, I use Textreas to allow editing of text snippets on our page. Since the user will be cut-and-pasting text, I don't want to rely on the linebreaks in it.
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        But then aren't you ending up with 2 sets of linebreaks? The linebreaks added by the user's paste job, and then the linebreaks added by the browser?

        So you end up output like: 

        Here is a line break where my
browser
decided to break the line, but
I
thought it would actually be
here.

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