textarea
Description
The textarea element for HTML represents a multiline plain text edit control for the element's raw value.
Syntax
HTML
<textarea attribute-name="attribute-value"></textarea>
Attributes
| Name | Value | Description |
|---|---|---|
| autocomplete | on | off | Specifies whether the element represents an input control for which a UA is meant to store the value entered by the user (so that the UA can prefill the form later) |
| autofocus | autofocus | empty | Specifies that the element represents a control to which a UA is meant to give focus as soon as the document is loaded |
| cols | positive integer | Expected maximum number of characters per line of text for the UA to show |
| dirname | string | Enables submission of a value for the directionality of the element, and gives the name of the field that contains that value |
| disabled | disabled | empty | Specifies that the element represents a disabled control |
| form | IDREF | Identifies a form with which to associate the element |
| maxlength | positive integer | Maximum length of value |
| minlength | positive integer | Minimum length of value |
| name | string | Name part of the name/value pair associated with this element for the purposes of form submission |
| placeholder | string | Short hint (one word or a short phrase) intended to aid the user when entering data into the control represented by its element |
| readonly | readonly | empty | Specifies that element represents a control whose value is not meant to be edited |
| required | required | empty | Specifies that the element is a required part of form submission |
| rows | positive integer | Number of lines of text for the UA to show |
| wrap | hard | soft | Instructs the UA to insert line breaks into the submitted value of the textarea such that each line has no more characters than the value specified by the cols attribute Instructs the UA to add no line breaks to the submitted value of the textarea |
