Top "Textarea" questions

A textarea is an HTML element (tag) used to create a multi-line plain-text editing field.

Insert text into textarea with jQuery

I'm wondering how I can insert text into a text area using jquery, upon the click of an anchor tag. …

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Rendering HTML inside textarea

I need to be able to render some HTML tags inside a textarea (namely <strong>, <i>, &…

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How to impose maxlength on textArea in HTML using JavaScript

I would like to have some functionality by which if I write <textarea maxlength="50"></textarea> <…

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Get value from text area

How to get value from the textarea field when it's not equal "". I tried this code, but when I enter …

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Remove scrollbars from textarea

Following up to my previous question (Add a scrollbar to a <textarea>) on how to always see the …

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Turn off textarea resizing

I'm trying to turn off textarea resizing in my site; right now I'm using this method: .textarea { clear:left; min-width: 267…

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How to clear textarea on click?

Given a <textarea> with a default value as follows: <textarea>Please describe why</textarea> …

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How to read line by line of a text area HTML tag

I have a text area where each line contains Integer value like follows 1234 4321 123445 I want to check if the user …

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How to get the caret column (not pixels) position in a textarea, in characters, from the start?

How do you get the caret position in a <textarea> using JavaScript? For example: This is| a text …

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Why is textarea filled with mysterious white spaces?

I have a simple text area in a form like this: <textarea style="width:350px; height:80px;" cols="42" rows="5" …

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