<textarea>
Widely available
The <textarea> element represents an editing control that allows users to enter multi-line, free-form, plain text.
Compatibility
- Chrome 1 Released on 2008-12-11
- Chrome Android 18 Released on 2012-06-27
- Edge 12 Released on 2015-07-29
- Firefox 1 Released on 2004-11-09
- Firefox for Android 4 Released on 2011-03-29
- Safari ≤4 Released before 2009-06-08
- Safari on iOS ≤3 Released before 2009-06-17
MDN docs
- HTMLTextAreaElement
- HTMLTextAreaElement.autocomplete
- HTMLTextAreaElement.cols
- HTMLTextAreaElement.defaultValue
- HTMLTextAreaElement.disabled
- HTMLTextAreaElement.form
- HTMLTextAreaElement.labels
- HTMLTextAreaElement.maxLength
- HTMLTextAreaElement.minLength
- HTMLTextAreaElement.name
- HTMLTextAreaElement.placeholder
- HTMLTextAreaElement.readOnly
- HTMLTextAreaElement.required
- HTMLTextAreaElement.rows
- HTMLTextAreaElement.select_event
- HTMLTextAreaElement.textLength
- HTMLTextAreaElement.type
- HTMLTextAreaElement.value
- HTMLTextAreaElement.wrap
Specifications
- HTML Standard, from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).
BCD data
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.autocomplete
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.cols
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.defaultValue
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.disabled
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.form
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.labels
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.maxLength
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.minLength
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.name
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.placeholder
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.readOnly
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.required
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.rows
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.select
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.select_event
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionDirection
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionEnd
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionStart
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.setRangeText
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.setSelectionRange
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.textLength
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.type
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.value
- api.HTMLTextAreaElement.wrap
- html.elements.textarea
- html.elements.textarea.autocomplete
- html.elements.textarea.cols
- html.elements.textarea.disabled
- html.elements.textarea.form
- html.elements.textarea.maxlength
- html.elements.textarea.minlength
- html.elements.textarea.name
- html.elements.textarea.placeholder
- html.elements.textarea.placeholder.line_breaks
- html.elements.textarea.readonly
- html.elements.textarea.required
- html.elements.textarea.rows
- html.elements.textarea.spellcheck
- html.elements.textarea.wrap
- html.elements.textarea.wrap.hard