Padding top not working on scrolling textarea

Question

I am trying to maintain top padding on textarea. But when scrollbar appears, padding top is not working.

Here is my html and css. Can anyone please help me out? Thank you.

<div class="form-group has-feedback issue-detail-text-area marginTop30">
       <textarea id="abc" name="abc" class="form-control clearable textArea x form-control-focus" rows="3" maxlength="500"></textarea>
       <span class="input-lable input-lable-focus">Other issue details (optional)</span>
</div>

#abc {
   padding-top: 22px;
   padding-bottom: 8px;
}
.marginTop30 {
   margin-top: 30px;
}
.input-lable-focus {
   top: 10px;
   font-size: 11px;
   opacity: 1;
   z-index: 100;
}
.input-lable {
   position: absolute;
   color: #b8bdc4;
   left: 18px;
}

Aggression

This should work. https://mcmap.net/q/1010348/-webkit-textarea-losing-top-amp-bottom-padding-on-vertical-scrollbar – Exercise

This worked for me. Thank you. @Exercise – Aggression

Does this answer your question? -webkit- textarea losing top & bottom padding on vertical scrollbar – Campground

Answer 1

You can use a top border in place of padding to prevent the content of the textarea from reaching behind the label. Then, you can reconstruct the borders of the textarea using a box-shadow.

This solution preserves the resizing both vertically and horizontally.

label {
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 16px;
  font-weight: bold;
  
  /* Special styles here */
  position: absolute;
  padding: 8px 8px 8px;
}

textarea {
  border-radius: 4px;
  padding: 0 8px 8px;
  
  /* Special styles here */
  border: 0;
  border-top: 32px solid white;
  box-shadow: 0 0 0 1px #666;
}

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Answer 2

This solves your issue. The only caveat is you must set a width and the textarea will only be able to expand vertically.

Essentially, you'll add class 'outer' to the form-group div and fake that as the entire textarea. <textarea> by itself will not constrain itself to border padding/margin.

.input-lable-focus {
  font-size: 11px;
  opacity: 1;
  z-index: 100;
}
.input-lable {
  color: #b8bdc4;
}
textarea {
  border: none;
  outline: none;
  width: 495px;
  max-width: 495px;
}
.outer {
  overflow: auto;
  padding: 10px 0 0 10px;
  width: 500px;
  border: 1px solid #aaa;
}

<div class="form-group has-feedback issue-detail-text-area outer">
  <span class="input-lable input-lable-focus">Other issue details (optional)</span>
  <textarea id="abc" name="abc" class="form-control clearable textArea x form-control-focus" rows="3" maxlength="500"></textarea>
</div>

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