Coding Forms

Text Area fields allow multiple lines of entry to be entered by the user. The user can type from a short sentence to many paragraphs.

<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="2" wrap="VIRTUAL">Place comments here </textarea>

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ROWS is the number of rows you want to use in your 'textarea' tag. This equates to the number of lines you want the 'textarea' entry field to contain.

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Application: Add a textarea field to my_form.html. Change cols to 75, rows to 3, and make the wrap physical.
Example: Form with a variety of 'text area' fields.

</TEXTAREA> is the closing tag and this form element requires a closing tag.

COLS is the number of columns you want to use in your 'textarea' tag. In this case 50 character spaces has been defined.

WRAP sets automatic word wrapping when text is entered into the text area field. Two of the most common values are virtual and physical . 'Virtual' wraps the text as it appears on the screen, but does not wrap it when submitting the information. 'Physical' wraps the text in both situations.

VALUE is not inside the textarea tag. Any text placed between the opening and closing 'textarea' tags appears in the 'textarea' field.