Bug 16956 - Implement SVGs <textarea/> element
Summary: Implement SVGs <textarea/> element
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: SVG (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: PC OS X 10.4
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/exam...
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Reported: 2008-01-21 06:39 PST by Andreas Neumann
Modified: 2014-05-12 05:19 PDT (History)
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Description Andreas Neumann 2008-01-21 06:39:30 PST 
One of the major missing features in the SVG 1.1 full spec was the missing flow-text. To do flow-text one had to do word-wrapping and use tspans created by script. Implementing <textarea/> would improve the life of SVG content developers.

Here is the spec section:
http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/text.html#TextInAnArea
Comment 1 Eric Seidel (no email) 2008-01-22 23:50:05 PST 
So the only real question is if text wrapping can be implemented in terms of CSS layout.  If it can, then we'll add this to the list of "pieces of SVG 1.2 which look sane enough to implement some day".  If not, then we might not ever do this.
Comment 2 Andreas Neumann 2008-01-23 00:35:23 PST 
Eric, I am investigating with the SVG working group on the compatibility issue between the rules in SVG Tiny 1.2 and the CSS layout rules.

I will report back.
Comment 3 Adk 2010-11-09 22:22:43 PST 
Any update on this feature?
Comment 4 Dirk Schulze 2014-05-12 05:19:06 PDT 
We will support a special version of <text> in SVG2 that allows to use wrapped text. It will follow CSS text layout.