Adding a text area

Text areas allow your audience to enter multiple lines of text, which they can scroll through using the scrollbars.

The display size of a text area is measured in rows and columns where each row is equivalent to one character in height and each column is equivalent to one character in width. A text area can be 1 to 100 rows tall and 5 to 500 columns wide. This display size of a text area does not limit the amount of text that your viewers can enter; if more text is entered, the text area will scroll.

To add a text area to the form area:

1. Place the insertion point inside the red border of the form area.
   
2. Choose Form from the Insert menu, and then choose Text Area from the submenu.
   
   Claris Home Page inserts a text area form element and opens the Text Area Object Editor.
   

   

   

3. In the Text Area Object Editor, type a short descriptive name in the Name text box.
   
4. In the Rows text box, type a number from 1 to 100 to set the height of the text area.
   
5. In the Columns text box, type a number from 5 to 500 to set the width of the text area.
   
6. Choose Virtual, Physical, or Off from the Wrap pop-up menu to set the type of word wrapping in the text area.
   
   Choose Virtual to wrap text onscreen, but not include line break characters with the form data. Choose Physical to wrap text onscreen and include line break characters with the data. Choose Off to disable word wrapping onscreen, and include line break characters in the form data if a viewer types them.
   
7. Close the Text Area Object Editor to apply your settings.