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5 Type <textarea
name=”?”, replacing? with
a descriptive name for the
field.
6 Type id=”?”, replacing?
with the ID value you used
in Step 2.
1 In your editor, open an HTML
page that contains a form.
2 Within the form, type
.
4 Type
.
Insert a Text Area
H
TML allows you to provide your user with the ability to enter large blocks of text with the
<textarea> tag. Like every other form control, the tag has a required name attribute. The
default display size of the field varies between browsers, but the tag also accepts rows and cols
attributes to set the size, where the former sets the field’s height and the latter its width. The