FAQ: Learn HTML: Forms - Textarea element

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This community-built FAQ covers the “Textarea element” exercise from the lesson “Learn HTML: Forms”.

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Introduction to HTML

FAQs on the exercise Textarea element

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A post was split to a new topic: Why can’t the textarea be left blank?

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6 posts were split to a new topic: Why do we need for, id, and name?

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10 posts were split to a new topic: How can we make transparent text that disappears when replaced?

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12 posts were split to a new topic: Why is textarea seperate from input? Is it even necessary?

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4 posts were split to a new topic: What does the cols and rows attributes determine?

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How do we remove the possibility to resize textarea?
I asked myself this question and found an answer, so I thought it could be interesting to other people.

Here is the answer : Add style=“resize:none” as an attribute to the element.

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Thank you so much for this! Good extra info!

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Thanks for the extra info. Its pretty much interesting.

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How could the default text in a textarea jump one row down like pressing enter.
So that the person typing begins to type in the second row.

For example:
Hello,
[Here begins the cursor for typing]

br just adds a “br” to the text