How do I fix inconsistent Textarea bottom margin in Firefox and Chrome?

Question

I'm trying to eliminate the extra bottom margin that both FF and Chrome seem to give to Textareas. Surprisingly IE seems to do it correctly. I would like to avoid using conditional includes but CSS3 tweaks are OK.

Sample Code

.red-box {
    background-color: red;
    overflow: hidden;
}
textarea {
    border: solid 1px #ddd;
    margin: 0px; /* Has no effect */
}

<div class="red-box">
    <textarea>No Margin Please!</textarea>
</div>

Qualified

FWIW, I can no longer reproduce this issue on Firefox 45. It still appears on Chromium 48, though. – Commonly

Answer 1

By default, I believe both Chrome and Firefox will set these elements as display: inline-block;. Set display: block in your styles and you should be all set.

Hendecahedron

Great. But then you also have to explicitly set margin with !important. Because Chrome seems to keep the margins of the textarea to its container "fixed" when textarea uses display: block... (You may take a look at stackoverflow.com/questions/60204423 that addresses that issue.) – Mahaffey

Answer 2

If you want to leave it inline, simply try

vertical-align: top

Brant

Never knew about this! Good if you don't want to make it a block :) – Consignee

Answer 3

Set display: block for your textarea.

Interlocutory

Answer 4

Just bit by this in 2022 Chrome!

<textarea> has a default of vertical-align: baseline, which visually manifests as excess bottom margin.

Interestingly, none of the most popular reset/normalize stylesheets change this property. In my personal reset, I have added:

vertical-align: bottom

Coggins

Answer 5

Just disable resize as follow

textarea{resize: none;}

Harbird