The width and height of a TEXTAREA is specified in characters, not pixels.

Plus, I set the font size to monospace 10pt with CSS, so its guaranteed to be monospace (which is the default anyway).

(You can see it in action here if you are curious.)

Anyway, let me restate: Given an 80-character soft-wrapping of a multi-paragraph scalar of English words in a monospace font ($content), what will the height of it be in characters ($rows)?

-Andrew.

Andrew Tomazos  |  andrew@tomazos.com  |  www.tomazos.com

In reply to Re^2: Estimating height of TEXTAREA from content by tomazos
in thread Estimating height of TEXTAREA from content by tomazos

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