<p>I have the following <code>textarea</code> in a <code>table</code>:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;table width="300"&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;

&lt;textarea style="width:100%"&gt;
longstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstringlongstring
&lt;/textarea&gt;

&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/table&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>With a long string in the textarea, the textarea stretches out to accommodate it in one line in IE7, but retains its 300px width in other browsers.</p>

<p>Any ideas as to how to fix this in IE?</p>

did you try...
```
overflow: hidden;
```
??
I'm not sure if it should be in the table of the textarea... experiment a bit