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Specifies a scrollable text box.

HTML 2, 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5

HTML Syntax

<textarea
   accesskey = key
   class = classname
   cols = n
   datafld = colname
   datasrc = #id
   disabled
   id = value
   name = name
   readonly
   rows = n
   style = css properties
   tabindex = n
   title = text
   wrap = off | hard | soft
   event = script
>

The TEXTAREA element defines a multiline text input control wherein users can enter one or more lines of text.

The number of lines and the number of characters per line, that the TEXTAREA can accommodate without scrolling, can be specified with the rows and cols attribute. The wrap attribute specifies how text wrapping is handled by the element.

Scrollbars appear in the TEXTAREA if the text exceeds the number of specified rows or columns. The CSS overflow attribute, however, can be used to control scrollbar behavior.

TEXTAREA defaults to a fixed-pitch font, though CSS font styles may be applied with the style attribute.

TEXTAREA Members

This example shows how a TEXTAREA element is rendered in HTML.

<textarea cols="40" rows="5">TEXTAREA automatically  provides scrollbars
to accommodate varying amounts of text ... </textarea>

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