Advanced HTML For Beginners > HTML > HTML Forms Textarea Tag

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The Textarea tag type creates a large window the user can enter text into.

Here is an example:

<textarea name="comments" cols="40" rows="10">
Type in your comments here.
</textarea>

The code above would result in this (but only if with in <form> tags):

Type in your comments here.

Here are the attributes to this input type

• textarea * - tells the browser that a textarea window is starting

• name * - when the form is submitted, this is the header the information in this field will go under

• cols * - tells how wide the window will be

• rows * - tells how tall the window will be

* = mandatory

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