Decorating XForm textarea

Dear All,

The XForm textarea has no properties (at least in styling terms) which 
is fine per se (e.g. height, width etc.)

However an implementation should be able to wrap those properties around 
the xform element as otherwise lots of things go to pieces. For example 
most JavaScript textarea editors will fail or have to be doctored as 
they get back null from requesting the width/height etc of this "textarea".

It also messes up tables containing textareas as while you can have some 
  css such as:

textarea
{
    width: 100%;
}

that will only work on the assumption there is some textarea.width to set.

As a result if doing a repeat in XForms to populate a table, the edges 
of the table snake down the page & the textarea assumes the default 
(usually fairly small) size unless it is filled by a string which has a 
greater length in which case it is that length.

Implementations should implement this is a transparent to the Xform 
designer way.

i.e. if the Xform plugin has loaded the XML/XHTML & has then delivered 
the "XHTML" to the next stage (e.g. JavaScript scripts) then the XHTML 
should be capable of holding std XHTML properties from that stage on. 
e.g. as far as any Javascript or css should see there should be the std 
textarea properties which they can then set/manipulate/draw information 
from.

Adam