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Textarea in HTML

In this article, we will discuss textarea in HTML

Purpose

Purpose of textarea is to create multiline textbox in HTML.

Syntax

<textarea></textarea>

Example

<html>
<head>
    <title>textarea Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form>
        <textarea></textarea>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Output

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Cols and rows attribute in textarea

In textarea we can define cols and rows property to configure length and width of textarea.

Cols – cols attribute is used to configure width of the textarea

rows – rows attribute is used to configure length of the textarea

Syntax

<textarea cols="" rows=""></textarea>

Example

<html>
<head>
    <title>textarea Demo</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form>
        <textarea cols="20" rows="20"></textarea>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Output

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Browser support

Internet Explorer	Firefox	Chrome	Safari	Opera	Edge
Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes	Yes

Posted By -	Karan Gupta

Posted On -	Sunday, November 06, 2016

Updated On -	Sunday, December 03, 2017

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