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<textarea></textarea>

By Jennifer Kyrnin, About.com

<textarea> Description:

The <textarea></textarea> tag defines multi-line text fields in HTML forms.

<textarea> Web Browser Support:
<textarea> Attributes:
<textarea> End Tag:
</textarea> REQUIRED
<textarea> Contents:

The default text displayed within the box. The following tags are valid within the <textarea> tag:
None

<textarea> Valid Context:

The <textarea> tag is valid within the following tag:
a, abbr, acronym, address, applet, b, bdo, big, blockquote, body, caption, center, cite, code, dd, del, dfn, div, dt, em, fieldset, font, form, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, i, iframe, ins, kbd, label, legend, li, noframes, noscript, object, p, pre, q, s, samp, small, span, strike, strong, sub, sup, td, th, tt, u, var

<textarea> Usage:
  • se this tag if you want your readers to submit large amounts of text.
<textarea> Special Notes:
More <form> Information:

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