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.

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)?

Wrap it yourself and count the lines:

use Text::Wrap;
my $rows = split("\n", fill('','', $content););
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Nice! In a fit of jealousy for not having thought of this myself I'll point out that the default column width for Text::Wrap is 76 characters. So an amended line if the stated 80 is the real case.

use Text::Wrap;
$Text::Wrap::columns = 80;
# and continue as above...
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Thanks. FYI: Use of implicit split to @_ deprecated.

my @rows = split("\n", fill('','', $content));
my $rows = $#rows + 1;
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Maybe?

-Andrew.

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I set the font size to monospace 10pt with CSS

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I think you're confusing this for an optional layout problem that could be left to the user agent.

I am all for the seperation of content from presentation, I just don't know how to do that in this case. I want to present my visitor an editable article, I have to put something in the character width and character height of the TEXTAREA. Tell me how not to fight it.

-Andrew.

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