BUG: Keystroke Expands Width of a Relative Positioned TEXTAREA Element

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This article was previously published under Q276400

Symptoms

In Internet Explorer 5.5, when you type inside a TEXTAREA element that is within a DIV element, you may notice on your first keystroke that the width increases by the amount of the containing DIV's padding-left attribute.

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Resolution

To work around this bug, set the style of the TEXTAREA element on the document to the absolute position.

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Status

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a bug in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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More information

Steps to Reproduce Behavior

Create an HTML file, and paste the following code:

<HTML>
  <HEAD>
    <TITLE>Document Title</TITLE>
  </HEAD>
  <BODY>
    <DIV STYLE="padding-left: 50px">

      <P>Type inside the TEXTAREA element. Notice that on your first keystroke, 
the width increases by the amount of the containing DIV's padding-left attribute.</P>

      <TEXTAREA STYLE="position: relative; width: 70%"></TEXTAREA>

    </DIV>
  </BODY>
</HTML>