<textarea>
Widely available
The <textarea>
element represents an editing control that allows users to enter multi-line, free-form, plain text.
To learn more, see
<textarea>: The Textarea element at MDN.
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
Specifications
- HTML Standard (#the-textarea-element), from HTML Workstream (WHATWG).