diff --git a/templates/kt3/fields/text.smarty b/templates/kt3/fields/text.smarty
index 543ea0c..444e0d1 100644
--- a/templates/kt3/fields/text.smarty
+++ b/templates/kt3/fields/text.smarty
@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
       
       <textarea name="{$name}"
         {if $has_id} id="{$id}"{/if}
-        {if $options.rows} rows="{$options.rows}"{/if}
-        {if $options.cols} cols="{$options.cols}"{/if}
+        {if $options.rows} rows="{$options.rows}"{else} rows="7"{/if}
+        {if $options.cols} cols="{$options.cols}"{else} cols="45"{/if}
       >{if $has_value}{$value}{/if}</textarea>
       <input type="hidden" name="kt_core_fieldsets_expect[{$name}]" value ="1"  />
      </div>