How do I specify the width of a text area in WordPress

I want to add a few text fields into a wordpress page.

For example, one that allows a max of 115 characters, is 64 characters wide and 2 rows in height.

In HTML I can specify the width by using cols=”64″ rows=”2″ to define the text area size and use maxlength=”115″ for the character limit.

However when I paste this code into my wordpress page it seems to recognize the maxlength and rows attributes, but not the cols= for the width.

Is there a way I can specify the width inline in the wordpress page without editing the actual main css file?

The code in HTML was this:

<textarea name=”item3″ maxlength=”115″ cols=”65″ rows=”2″></textarea>

Thanks in advance!