On WebKit implementation in Qt 4.6.1, <textarea>'s CSS attribute "padding" is just ignored, and textareas have a 0px internal padding, resulting the text to be too near to the borders.
I've created a minimal testcase that clearly shows the problem. I'll soon publish it.
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Related to https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=36413 which is currently SOLVED. Closing. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 36413 ***