I want to display a textarea for user input and to the right of it I want to display an instruction text. I want the instructions text to use the available width beside the text area and I want its lines to wrap as necessary, but stay to the right of the textarea. I'd like the text to be top aligned with the text area.
<div class="container">
<textarea rows="10" cols="30">Text data</textarea>
<div class="instructions">
Please follow these instructions when entering data
into the textarea to the left. Blah blah blah..
</div>
</div>
How would I achieve this with HTML5 and CSS3 that works in most modern browsers?
EDIT: Perhaps I should add that I tried setting both textarea
and div.instructions
to display: inline-block
, but that's not enough because the div.instructions
doesn't wrap. Instead, when the available space to the right of the textarea
is too small to fit the instructions text on a single line, the entire div.instructions
slips below the textarea
.
JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/0bh0mLej/
You can use display: table-cell
:
<div class="container">
<div style="display: table-cell">
<textarea rows="10" cols="30">Text data</textarea>
</div>
<div style="display: table-cell; vertical-align: top;">
Please follow these instructions when entering data
into the textarea to the left. Blah blah blah..
</div>
</div>