Set width and height for textarea
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css"> textarea { width: 250px; height: 75px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id="container"> <div id="header"> <h1>My Amazing Web Site </h1> </div> <div id="wrapper"> <div id="content"> <h2>Contact Form</h2> <form id="form1" name="form1" method="post" action="/"> <label for="fmmsg"><span class="akey">M</span>essage</label> <textarea name="fmmsg" accesskey="m" id="fmmsg" rows="5" cols="14"></textarea> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="send" class="submit" /> </form> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>