Form fields: Textarea

Textarea is a form field that can contain multi-line text.

You add a textarea using the <textarea> tag.

Unlike <input />, this tag requires an opening and closing tag:

<textarea></textarea>

Inside it, we can add a value for the content displayed:

<textarea>Hello</textarea>

We can set the size of the textarea using HTML attributes:

  • rows sets the number of rows
  • cols sets the number of columns
<textarea rows='13' cols='40'></textarea>

As usual to send data to the server we add a name attribute to it.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Form submit field
2: Specialized input fields
3: Checkboxes
4: Radio buttons
5: File input fields
6: ▶︎ Textarea
7: Select
8: Autocompleting form fields
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