The text area box is used to create a rectangular box for the user to enter text with multiple lines. If in a text box there are more lines than available space for displaying it, a scrolling list will appear to allow moving up and down the box.
Place the cursor in the edit window where you wish to insert text area boxes. This location must be placed between <FORM> and </FORM> tags.
In the Forms tag, click on the Text area box. The Form elements box appears.
In the identifier name text box, type a name. This name identifies the text box.
In the Column
and Row boxes, specify the size.
The number of columns is equivalent to the maximum number of characters
that you insert in a line; the number of rows is the number of lines.
In the Line cut off box, select the option you want to apply to the field of the drop down list:
Deactivated, prevents the display of scroll bars.
Virtual, only in case the text is too long to show in the window.
Physical, which automatically displays scroll bars.
It is recommended to keep the Deactivated
by default option. You will be sure that all browsers will interpret the
command. In this case, the line cut off will be automatic, according to
the box size and a scroll bar will appear to allow viewing all the text.
If you are using Netscape as your developing standard, you can select between
the Virtual or Physical
options.
In the Preview window, you can enter a message that will appear in the text area box and will act as the default value.
Click on the OK button.
AceHTML inserts the following command in the document:
If you have not previously specified the type of form in which you want to insert this element, AceHTML asks if you want to insert the Form in the document.