<!DOCTYPE HTML> <style> div { font-size: 12px; line-height: 1.0; width: 450px } textarea { font-size: 12px; } textarea { line-height: 1.0 } </style> <!-- In a 450px container, the minimum font size at 15em per line is 30px. This means we map 0px-45px into 30px-45px, so 12px gets mapped to 34px. --> <div><textarea>Hello world</textarea></div>