<textarea> Description:
The <textarea></textarea> tag defines multi-line text fields in HTML forms.
<textarea> Web Browser Support:
- Netscape 2, 3, 4, 6, 7
- Mozilla 1
- Firefox 1
- Internet Explorer 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
- Opera 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
- Safari 1
- WebTV / MSNTV
- AvantGo Palm OS
- AvantGo Windows CE
- HTML 3.2, 4.0
- XHTML 1.0: XHTML Basic Forms Module, XHTML Forms Module
<textarea> Attributes:
- onkeypress (optional)
- onkeyup (optional)
- onmousedown (optional)
- onmousemove (optional)
- onmouseout (optional)
- onmouseover (optional)
- onmouseup (optional)
- onselect (optional)
- readonly (optional)
- rows REQUIRED
- style (optional)
- tabindex (optional)
- title (optional)
<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.
