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Help
Text Area  (1996).iso/pc/win/npress/help/refer/037e.gif)
If you want to input more than one line of text you should use a
Text Area rather than a Text Field.
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Add a Text Area:
Text area dialog
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- Position the cursor where you want the Text Area to be.
- Click the TArea button on the form palette to get the dialog
box above. This dialog allows you to insert a text area (a scrollable area
in which the user can type more than one line of text) into a form.
- Specify values for Form Tag and, optionally, Initial Text.
- Initial Text, if specified, is displayed within the text area by
default and is submitted with the form data if the user has not typed over
it.
- Optionally specify the Area Attributes: Rows (number
of rows) and Cols (number of columns).
- This sets the size of the Text Area in the page. The number of characters
a user may enter into a text area may be greater than fits into it, but the
horizontal and vertical scrolling allow the user to read everything in the
text area.
- When adding text, scrolling occurs automatically when Return is hit.
- Click OK, and the text area appears where the cursor was
positioned.
Every form element must must have a "Form Tag". When a form is submitted,
then the POST to the form URL will contain "<Form Tag>=<Contents
of the Text Area>". The text area may be initialized so that it starts
out containing the text specified in the Initial Text region.