Level: 2
When you need to let users enter more than one line of text, you
should use the
textarea element, e.g.
<textarea name="address" ROWS=64 COLS=6>
HaL Computer Systems
1315 Dell Avenue
Campbell, California 95008
</textarea>
The text up to the end tag is used to initialize the field's value. This end tag is always required even if the field is initially blank.
In a typical rendering, the
rows and
cols attributes determine the
visible dimension of the field in characters. The field is rendered
in a fixed-width font. Browsers should allow text to grow beyond
these limits by scrolling as needed.
input element with
type=text. Unfortunately, this causes problems
for fields with long text values as SGML limits
the length of attribute literals. The HTML 2.0
DTD allows for up to 1024 characters (the
SGML default is only 240 characters!).