Textarea columns

[RobDog888]

I am adding a textarea on a custom page and I tried using the fetch_text_area_width() function in the functions_editor.php file like so but it never is correct under any browser Im testing with.

// php file...
require_once(DIR . '/includes/functions_editor.php');

// ...

$textareacols = fetch_textarea_width();

// template
<textarea class="bginput" rows="4" cols="$textareacols" name="description" /></textarea>
// ..

In IE 7 its not wide enough to match the posticons fieldset and in IE 6 its way too wide. Seems like the function is not working correctly at all.

Arg!