Things To Do With Textarea Form Fields

By Will Bontrager
2005-09-26

Specifying Text Style, Wrap Characteristics, and Read Only

We also use attributes to specify the text style, turn wrap off, and to make the content read only. Here is an example copied from the "Removing Non-Digit Characters" blog entry:

<form>

<textarea 

   cols="44" 

   rows="2" 

   onclick="javascript:select()" 

   style="font-family: monospace; font-size: 12px;" 

   wrap="off" 

   readonly="yes">

$value =~ s/\D//g;

</textarea>

</form>

(The wrap="off" attribute can be important when presenting programming code. Some code, such as JavaScript, is line break sensitive.)

Tutorial Pages:
» Things To Do With Textarea Form Fields
» Automatically Selecting Content
» Specifying Text Style, Wrap Characteristics, and Read Only
» Bold Text and Text/Background Colors
» Textarea Field With Background Image

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