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.

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