What does the `cols` and `rows` attributes determine?

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#1

What does cols relate to? I am familiar with grid systems, but what is the number of columns relating to without a defined grid system?

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FAQ: Learn HTML: Forms - Textarea element
FAQ: Learn HTML: Forms - Textarea element
#2

The textarea cols attribute is the count of how many characters wide the field will be.

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Hi, if the is being set to rows=“3” and cols="40, why is the text box still movable? Would be helpful for the textarea to be able to expand vertically, but not horizontally. Anyways to fix this?

#4

Have you checked the documentation? Here is the documentation for text-area:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea

there is a section called: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea, which should be helpful.