textarea (multi-line input)
textarea
elements allow entry of multiple lines of text into a form.
Content category
Pseudo-classes
- All in Input
Attributes
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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 itsid
).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 todisabled
, but the input'svalue
will still be submitted along with the form.required
determines whether an emptyvalue
will pass validation.wrap
controls text wrapping:hard
has the browser insert line breaks (CRLF) in the text to ensure no line has more thancols
columns.soft
ensures that all line breaks are CRLF, but doesn't insert any additional line breaks.
Value
The element value will have newlines normalised as \n
.
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