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CHAPTER

Adding Forms to Your Site 11

● When the page is viewed in

a browser, the text area

appears.

7 Type rows=”?”, replacing?
with a number for the height
of the field.

8 Type cols=”?”, replacing?
with a number for the weight
of the field.

9 Type >.

0 Type .
9 10

7 8

TIPS

How much text can a user enter into the field?

Some browsers limit the field to 65,536 characters,

but others do not. You can set a limit yourself by

using JavaScript. Several Ajax libraries, including

Adobe Spry, have prebuilt controls to limit the text

entered into a text area.

Can I add a toolbar to allow my user to format

the text?

HTML does not provide this capability, but several

implementations to do so exist. A popular, free

option is the CKEditor, available for download from

http://www.ckeditor.com.