Textareas are similar to text form fields, but span several lines instead of just one, and allow paragraphs to be defined.
Textareas are a complete element with an opening tag and a closing tag. If you want text to appear in the textarea by default, that text should be placed between the opening and closing tags.
<form action="what-to-do-next.php" method="post">
<textarea></textarea>
<textarea>When is a car not a car? When it turns into a garage!</textarea>
</form>
The results of these two textareas are:
Our examples did not include the name attribute. If you plan to collect data from a textarea after a form is submitted, a unique name is necessary.
Two attributes unique to textareas are "rows" and "cols", both of which accept numeric values indicating the size of the textarea. An example is:
<form action="what-to-do-next.php" method="post">
<textarea name="user-comment" rows="7" cols="70"></textarea>
</form>
The result is: