BASELINE NowYouCanUse.com
Widely Available Forms
id: textarea

<textarea>

The <textarea> element represents an editing control that allows users to enter multi-line, free-form, plain text.
Baseline Status: Achieved Widely Available on Jan 29, 2018 (Cross-browser Newly Available since Jul 29, 2015).
Desktop Browser Engine Support
Google Chrome
1
Supported
Mozilla Firefox
1
Supported
Apple Safari
≤4
Supported
Microsoft Edge
12
Supported
Mobile Browser Engine Support
Chrome Android
18
Firefox Android
4
Safari iOS
≤3
Specifications and References
Specification ↗ Feature XML ↗
MDN Browser Compat Data Keys:
api.HTMLTextAreaElement ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.autocomplete ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.cols ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.defaultValue ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.disabled ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.form ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.labels ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.maxLength ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.minLength ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.name ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.placeholder ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.readOnly ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.required ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.rows ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.select ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.select_event ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionDirection ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionEnd ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.selectionStart ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.setRangeText ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.setSelectionRange ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.textLength ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.type ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.value ↗ api.HTMLTextAreaElement.wrap ↗ html.elements.textarea ↗ html.elements.textarea.autocomplete ↗ html.elements.textarea.cols ↗ html.elements.textarea.disabled ↗ html.elements.textarea.form ↗ html.elements.textarea.maxlength ↗ html.elements.textarea.minlength ↗ html.elements.textarea.name ↗ html.elements.textarea.placeholder ↗ html.elements.textarea.placeholder.line_breaks ↗ html.elements.textarea.readonly ↗ html.elements.textarea.required ↗ html.elements.textarea.rows ↗ html.elements.textarea.wrap ↗ html.elements.textarea.wrap.hard ↗