The TEXTAREA Tag

The TEXTAREA tag can be used to place a multiline text entry field with optional default contents in a fill-out form. The attributes to TEXTAREA are as follows:

NAME is the symbolic name of the text entry field.
ROWS is the number of rows (vertical height in characters) of the text entry field.
COLS is the number of columns (horizontal width in characters) of the text entry field.

TEXTAREA fields automatically have scrollbars; any amount of text can be entered in them.

The TEXTAREA element requires both an opening and a closing tag. A TEXTAREA with no default contents looks like this:

        <TEXTAREA NAME="foo" ROWS=4 COLS=40></TEXTAREA>

A TEXTAREA with default contents looks like this:

        <TEXTAREA NAME="foo" ROWS=4 COLS=40>
        Default contents go here.
        </TEXTAREA>

The default contents must be straight ASCII text. Newlines are respected (so in the above example there will be a newline both before and after "Default contents go here.").