TextAreaFor Cannot Set Width

Question

I cannot set the width or cols in atextarea. Rows/Height works just fine. can someone please help thanks!

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Answer 1

This appears to be a fall back to prevent the scaffolded views generating full width entry forms.

However now we know that it is being set we can override it locally either in a class or directly on the element (shown purely for simplicity below).

The key is to remember to set max-width to override the one in site.css as well as the width CSS property.

@Html.TextAreaFor(model => model.Comments, 10, 120, htmlAttributes: new {style="width: 100%; max-width: 100%;" })