<html lang="en"> <head> <style type="text/css"> .p { border: dotted silver 1px; font-style:italic; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica; font-size: 10pt; line-height:-400%; width:400px; height:200px; } </style> </head> <body> The textarea below should have standard line-height because textareas should ignore negative line-heights<br/> <p> TEXTAREA<br/> <textarea id="myTA" class="p">Demo text here that wraps a bit and should demonstrate the goodness of line-height</textarea> <br/><br/> </p> </body> </html>