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.
<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. |
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. |
event |
Can be one or more of these events: |
<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:
The default font is fixed pitch. Both the start and end tags are required.