Large text areas (<textarea>)

Text areas are used to enter multiple lines of text into a form.

The size of the area is defined by attributes rows and cols.

Syntax:

<textarea cols="" rows=""></textarea>

Attributes:

• id, class (document-wide identifiers)
• lang (language information), dir (text direction)
• title (element title)
• style (inline style information)
• name (<select>) (elements name)
• readonly (read-only input controls)
• disabled (disabled input controls)
• tabindex (<select>) (tabbing navigation)
• rows, cols (textarea size)
• onfocus, onblur, onselect, onchange, onclick, ondblclick, onmousedown, onmouseup, onmouseover, onmousemove, onmouseout, onkeypress, onkeydown, onkeyup (intrinsic events)

Example

HTML textarea element:

 

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