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 HTML: Forms: textarea

Text areas are used for multiple-line text entry. The default size of the text box is 1 row by 20 characters. You can change the size using the COLS and ROWS attributes. Here's a typical example of a text area with a text box 40 characters wide by 7 rows:

<TEXTAREA NAME="myarea" COLS="40" ROWS="7">
</TEXTAREA>

The text area can be initialized by placing the initial text between the tags:

<TEXTAREA NAME="myarea" COLS="40" ROWS="7">
Initial text
</TEXTAREA>

You can use JavaScript to read the contents of the text area box. This is done with the value property. Here is an example:

<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function seeTextArea (form) {
    alert (form.myarea.value);
}
</SCRIPT>

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