diff --git a/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/psi/codeStyle/CodeStyleSettings.java b/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/psi/codeStyle/CodeStyleSettings.java
index 658015f3b9ce..b698e177a80a 100644
--- a/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/psi/codeStyle/CodeStyleSettings.java
+++ b/platform/lang-api/src/com/intellij/psi/codeStyle/CodeStyleSettings.java
@@ -376,7 +376,7 @@ public class CodeStyleSettings extends CommonCodeStyleSettings implements Clonea
   @NonNls public String HTML_DO_NOT_INDENT_CHILDREN_OF = "html,body,thead,tbody,tfoot";
   public int HTML_DO_NOT_ALIGN_CHILDREN_OF_MIN_LINES = 0;
 
-  @NonNls public String HTML_KEEP_WHITESPACES_INSIDE = "span,pre";
+  @NonNls public String HTML_KEEP_WHITESPACES_INSIDE = "span,pre,textarea";
   @NonNls public String HTML_INLINE_ELEMENTS =
     "a,abbr,acronym,b,basefont,bdo,big,br,cite,cite,code,dfn,em,font,i,img,input,kbd,label,q,s,samp,select,span,strike,strong,sub,sup,textarea,tt,u,var";
   @NonNls public String HTML_DONT_ADD_BREAKS_IF_INLINE_CONTENT = "title,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,p";