Title: Textarea width limit
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Textarea width limit

 *  Resolved [Malae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malae/)
 * (@malae)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-width-limit/)
 * I am using version: 3.1.8.2. and my site is still under construction. I am very
   happy with the ability to configure so many aspects of this contact form including
   background, text colour and even the text colour on the Submit and Reset buttons.
   The only thing I couldn’t change was the attachment button, which is no fault
   of this plug-in. I am using the Twenty Eleven theme with no sidebars, which allows
   a very wide contact form. After a lot of adding and removing width values, I 
   have ended up with CSS style for form DIV: set at width:99%; margin-left:auto;
   margin-right:auto;, which looks ok even on a mobile. The Textarea width fills
   up the space between the borders with a little wider right margin. With various
   other width settings the Input Textarea Field Cols: settings seemed to have no
   effect. I have two questions: Firstly, what is a ‘col’ width and how does it 
   relate to a px or character width? Secondly, I find that the Textarea can be 
   dragged (pushing the border too) to the right-hand edge of the page. Is there
   any way to fix or limit the Textarea width to prevent this?
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/si-contact-form/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Malae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malae/)
 * (@malae)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-width-limit/#post-3785009)
 * Just found the way to stop the overflow of the _textarea_:
    Add `overflow:auto;
   resize:both;` to the _CSS style inside form input _fields. Now worthy of 5 stars!
   Works in the new beta version too.

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 * Last reply from: [Malae](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malae/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/textarea-width-limit/#post-3785009)
 * Status: resolved