TEXTAREA
The TEXTAREA element is used to allow a user to enter more than one line
of text in a FORM.
Example
<TEXTAREA NAME="address" ROWS=64 COLS=6>
Hewlett Packard Laboratories
1501 Page Mill Road
Palo Alto, California 94304-1126
</TEXTAREA>
The text up to the end tag is used to initialize the field's value.
This end tag is always required even if the field is initially
blank.
Explanatory Note: TEXTAREA and INPUT/TEXT
In the initial design for forms, multi-line text fields were
supported by the INPUT element with TYPE=TEXT . Unfortunately, this
causes problems for fields with long text values as SGML limits the
length of attribute literals. The HTML 2.0 DTD allows for up to 1024
characters (the SGML default is only 240 characters!).
Content
- Tag Minimization
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Open Tag: REQUIRED
Close Tag: REQUIRED
See ATTRIBUTES
See CONTENT DECLARATION
Parent Elements
- form -- Fill-out or data-entry form
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