The <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA> element is used to provide a editable text input area for the user.
Any default text you wish to give the text area should be placed between the two tags. You must
include the end tag even if you don't want to provide any default text. You can specify the width
and height of the text area and, for some browsers, the type of wrapping to apply to the input
text.
Attributes:
NAME="text"
This assigns a label to the text input by the user, thus identifying what
the user was responding to.
COLS=characters
Specify the width of the text entry area in characters.
ROWS=number
Specify the height of the text entry area in rows.
WRAP="off|soft|hard|virtual|physical"
Specifies how the text input
should wrap. Setting WRAP="off" means no wrapping will occur - text is sent exactly as
typed. Setting WRAP="soft" means the display wraps but the text is sent as typed. Setting
WRAP="hard" means the display wraps and text is sent with line breaks at all wrap points.
The values virtual and physical are the same as soft and hard respectively but have fallen out
of use with recent browsers. The default for Netscape browsers is off, for Internet
Explorer it is soft.
Example:
<TEXTAREA COLS=50 ROWS=10 WRAP="hard" NAME="Feedback text area">
Here's what I want to tell you about:
</TEXTAREA>