Is there a way to retain formatting in textarea?
Both TinyMCE and CKEditor are very common ones, but there are many others as well. A text box is like wordpad, you cant format it, if you paste in from word or any other formatted text it will wipe all the formatting and you will be left with just the text.
How to customize the behavior of a textarea?
If you need to customize your textarea, reproduce its behavior using another element (like a DIV) with the contenteditable attribute. It’s more customizable, and a more modern approach, textarea is just for plain text content, not for rich content.
Can you use HTML in a text area?
You cannot use HTML inside TEXTAREA. Scrolling can be applied to any element by adding overflow: auto and fixed width and/or height. You can user html editors for web like CKEditor to be able to format the data in text area.
What’s the difference between textarea and input type text?
The tag defines a multi-line text input control. A text area can hold an unlimited number of characters, and the text renders in a fixed-width font (usually Courier). The size of a text area can be specified by the cols and rows attributes, or even better; through CSS’ height and width properties.
What to put in form attribute of textarea?
You must put in the form attribute of the textarea the form’s id, not it’s name. When a form is submitted everything inside it is sent, any inputs outside the form tag are ignored. Make sure you are not missing out on name attribute of textarea tag. This happend to me in django.
How does the textarea tag work in CSS?
Definition and Usage. The tag defines a multi-line text input control. A text area can hold an unlimited number of characters, and the text renders in a fixed-width font (usually Courier). The size of a text area can be specified by the cols and rows attributes, or even better; through CSS’ height and width properties.