Extra space under textarea, differs along browsers
HtmlCssCross BrowserWhitespaceRemoving WhitespaceHtml Problem Overview
There`s some extra space under textarea tag. From 1 to 4 pixels in different browsers. The markup is very simple:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
.main {
background-color: red;
}
textarea {
background-color: gray;
resize: none;
margin: 0;
border: 0 none;
padding: 10px;
height: 50px;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="main">
<textarea></textarea>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Here's how it is rendered in browsers:
Why is this happening? How to remove this extra space?
Html Solutions
Solution 1 - Html
Add vertical-align: top to textarea.
The reason for the gap is that textarea is an inline (or inline-block) element, and the gap is the space reserved for descenders in text. I don't know exactly why the gap is different between different browsers.
Solution 2 - Html
In my case, thirtydot's answer didn't work well with the parent <div>'s bottom border.
display: block suited me nicely though.
Solution 3 - Html
I also found that the space goes away if the textarea's parent is using display:flex:
/* The relevant part: */
#FlexLayout { display: flex; flex-direction: column; }
/* The boring part: */
.ShowChildBorders * { border: 1px solid; }
#DefaultLayout * { border-color: red; }
#FlexLayout * { border-color: green; }
#SideBySide { display: flex; }
#SideBySide > div { flex: 1; margin: 4px; }
#SideBySide * { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
<div id="SideBySide">
<div class="ShowChildBorders">
<div id="DefaultLayout">
<div>Default Layout</div>
<textarea>Text Area</textarea><br/>
<textarea>Text Area</textarea>
</div>
</div>
<div class="ShowChildBorders">
<div id="FlexLayout">
<div>Flexbox Layout</div>
<textarea>Text Area</textarea>
<textarea>Text Area</textarea>
</div>
</div>
</div>
On Chrome 91.0.4472.77, Windows 10 64-bit, that renders as:
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