TEXTAREA

Description

This element can let users enter multiline of text. Any text between the start tag and end tag is used as the initial value for the control.

Syntax

<TEXTAREA
ACCESSKEY=key
ALIGN=ABSBOTTOM | ABSMIDDLE | BASELINE | BOTTOM | LEFT | MIDDLE | RIGHT | TEXTTOP | TOP
CLASS=Style Sheet class name
COLS=n
DATAFLD=colname
DATASRC=#ID
DISABLED
ID=value
LANG=language
LANGUAGE=JAVASCRIPT | JSCRIPT | VBSCRIPT | VBS
NAME=name
READONLY
ROWS=n
STYLE=styling
TABINDEX=n
TITLE=text
WRAP=OFF | PHYSICAL | VIRTUAL
event = script
>

Parameter

Description

ACCESSKEY

Specifies an accelerator for the element. Pressing alt-key selects this element in the user's browser.

ALIGN

Specifies the alignment for the control-like element.

CLASS

Specifies the class of the tag being defined. This is used to associate a sub-classed style sheet with the tag.

COLS

Specifies how many characters wide the text area is.

DATAFLD

The column name from the data source object that supplies the bound data.

DATASRC

Indicates the ID of the data source object that supplies the data that is bound to this element.

DISABLED

Used to disable an element. This attribute prevents an element from receiving the focus, and causes the element to appear "grayed out."

ID

An SGML identifier used as the target for hypertext links or for naming particular elements in associated style sheets. Valid ID values must begin with a letter. The underbar character, "_", may be used in the ID name. The ID should be unique throughout the scope of the document. If more than one object with the same identifier exists in a document, a collection of those named items is created that can only be referenced by ordinal position.

LANG

Specifies which language to use in ISO standard language abbreviation form.

LANGUAGE

Specifies the language the current script is written in and invokes the proper scripting engine. The default value is JAVASCRIPT.
JAVASCRIPT, JSCRIPT-- The scripting language is written in JavaScript.
VBS, VBSCRIPT-- The scripting language is written in VBScript.

NAME

Specifies the name of the control, bookmark, or application.

READONLY

Causes the element's contents to be read only.

ROWS

Specifies the number of rows tall the text area control should be.

STYLE

Specifies an in-line style sheet for the tag.

TABINDEX

Sets the tab order position for the object.

TITLE

Used to provide advisory information.

WRAP

Specifies how to handle word-wrapping inside the text area.
*OFF-- Word-wrapping is disabled (default).
*PHYSICAL --The display word-wraps, and the text is transmitted at all wrap points.
*VIRTUAL --The display word-wraps, but long lines are sent as one line without new-lines.

event

Can be one or more of these events:
onafterupdate
onbeforeupdate
onblur
onchange
onclick
ondblclick
ondragstart
onfocus
onhelp
onkeydown
onkeypress
onkeyup
onmousedown
onmousemove
onmouseout
onmouseover
onmouseup
onresize
onrowenter
onrowexit
onscroll
onstart
onselectstart

Example

<textarea name="the sample of textarea" rows="3" wrap="VIRTUAL" cols="20">This is a sample of text area</textarea>

The code is rendered as:

Remarks

The default font is fixed pitch. Both the start and end tags are required.

Related Topics

INPUT