HTML Forms: TEXTAREA Tag
The <TEXTAREA> allows a text entry area with multiple rows.
Note that it's a container: it has a closing tag.
The enclosed text is displayed as the window contents.
tag and the terminating </TEXTAREA> tag.
<Form Method=POST
Action="mailto:Fake@NoWhere.org">
<Textarea rows=5 cols=55
name="msg">Hi Fake,
</Textarea>
<Input type=submit
value="Send it to Fake">
</Form>
ROWS
is the number of vertical rows to be displayed for text entry.
COLS
is the number of horizontal columns to be displayed for text entry.
If you would like default text to appear within the textarea,
simply type the text in between the start and end TEXTAREA
tags.
Here is more about using mailto.
Be warned that putting email addresses into web pages (or anything on
the Internet) will get you
spam.
The one in the example is fake.
Here is a CGI program
for
emailing comments
without using mailto.
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