10.13 Textarea Controls
To round out your introduction to HTML’s most popular controls, we’ll cover textarea controls3 in this section and pull-down menus and list boxes after that.
The textarea control is similar to the text control in that it enables the user to enter text into a box. The only significant differences in functionality are that the box can have multiple rows, and the box will have a scrollbar if it contains more text than can be seen within the box’s borders. There are quite a few differences in syntax, and we’ll cover those differences next.
Because of the somewhat disjointed nature of HTML’s development (remember the browser wars?), knowing which element to use for a particular control can be a bit of a challenge. Up to ...
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