HTML Textarea

HTML <textarea> tag is used to define a multi-line text input control.

The size of the textarea is defined by <cols> and <rows> attribute, or it can also be defined through CSS height and width properties.

See this example:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<title>Example of HTML Textarea Tag</title>
</head>
<body>
    <textarea rows="12" cols="50">Textarea example with rows and columns.</textarea>  
 </body>
</html>