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How To Create A Textarea Field For A Form

A Textarea field will accept any type of alphanumeric text entry.

Setting the size of the textarea

You can set the size of the textarea by specifying the number of columns wide and number of rows high that it will be.

Setting a background color and text font, size and color

Adding default text to the textarea

You can add default text to the textarea. This is useful if for example you want a visitor to agree to terms and conditions before downloading a file.

<textarea name="textarea" cols="40" rows="5" style="color: #FF0000; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12px; background-color: #FFFF66;">This is the default text for the textarea.</textarea>

This is the default text for the textarea.