textarea (multi-line input)

textarea elements allow entry of multiple lines of text into a form.

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autofocus focuses the input when it or its parent dialog are made visible.
cols sets the number of columns per line.
rows sets the number of rows to show.
dirname indicates the name of the form field to use for submission of the field's text directionality.
disabled indicates that the control should be disabled.
form allows explicit association of the element with a form (using its id).
minlength sets the minimum length of the value (in UTF-16 code units).
maxlength sets the maximum length of the value (in UTF-16 code units).
name specifies the name of the input control, and the name against which the value will be submitted. Without this, the value will not be included in submissions.
placeholder text is displayed to the user in the form as an example/hint of what is expected.
readonly behaves similarly to disabled, but the input's value will still be submitted along with the form.
required determines whether an empty value will pass validation.
wrap controls text wrapping:
- hard has the browser insert line breaks (CRLF) in the text to ensure no line has more than cols columns.
- soft ensures that all line breaks are CRLF, but doesn't insert any additional line breaks.

The element value will have newlines normalised as \n.

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