javascript TEXTAREA Description

textarea

NN 2 IE 3 DOM 1

The textarea object reflects the textarea element and is used as a form control. This object is the primary way of getting a user to enter multiple lines of text for submission to the server. Note that the innerHTML property is not available on the Macintosh version of Internet Explorer 4. Only a limited number of properties and methods shown below are available in early browsers that do not support addressing all HTML elements (prior to IE 4 and Netscape 6). IE 5 and later support the shared doScroll( ) method for this object.

HTML Equivalent

<textarea>

Object Model Reference

[window.]document.formName.elementName
[window.]document.forms[i].elements[j]
[window.]document.getElementById("elementID")

Object-Specific Properties

cols	dataFld	dataSrc	defaultValue	form
name	readOnly	rows	status	type
value	wrap

Object-Specific Methods

createTextRange( )

handleEvent[ ]

select( )

Object-Specific Event Handler Properties

Handler	NN	IE	DOM
onblur	2	3	n/a
onchange	2	3	n/a
onfocus	2	3	n/a
onkeydown	4	4	n/a
onkeypress	4	4	n/a
onkeyup	4	4	n/a
onscroll	n/a	4	n/a
onselect	2	3	n/a

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