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+ 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
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