Maintaining a padding inside of text-area

Question

Inside of my textarea, I wish to maintain a padding of 30px from the top.

textarea {
    display: block;
    width: 300px;
    height: 50px;
    padding-top:         


        

Answer 1

I think the correct it's usage a "margin", but for you request can be: http://jsfiddle.net/Lhderpup/

.padTextarea {
  background-color: white;
  padding-top: 30px;
  display: table;
  border: 1px solid #CCC;
}

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I hope I have helped.