HTML Text Areas

Text areas are used to get large amount of text data from the page’s user. This input tool is used in the design of blogs and site forms which require considerable information to be captured from the site visitors.

The text area input is like a tag and it has an opening tag and a closing tag.

Here is how you use it in your HTML body:

<textarea>Type you text here</textarea>

You will see a text areas output. Now to include as much space as you would like here, you need to specify it in the form of rows and columns.

Here is how to do this:

<textarea cols="10" rows="10">Text Area!</textarea>

Output: