overflow:auto when textarea has content by default?

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Published on 2010-03-29T17:07:40Z Indexed on 2010/03/29 17:13 UTC
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Hey

This is a problem, that has annoyed me for a long time. If I have a textarea with long text in it, overflow doesn't work, even if content goes over the visible area. How to fix this?

Martti Laine

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