HTML: Textarea Tag

By Xah Lee. Date: .

The textarea tag is used to generate a Graphical User Interface for long text input, such as for comments.

Example:

<textarea name="user_comment" rows="5" cols="40">default text here</textarea>

Here's what your browser shows:

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