Webmaster in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition By Robert Eckstein, Stephen Spainhour
Table of Contents
Chapter 11. JavaScript
Textarea
Client-Side JavaScript 1.0
Multiline text input
Inherits From: Element
form .elements[ i ] form .elements[ name ] form . name
Description
The Textarea object is very similar to the Input object.
Properties
The Textarea object defines properties for each of the attributes of the HTML <textarea> tag, such as cols, defaultValue, disabled, name, readOnly, and rows. In addition, it defines the following properties:
form
The Form object that contains this Textarea object. Read-only.
type
A read-only string property that specifies the type of the element. For Textarea objects, this property is always "textarea".
value
A read/write string that specifies the text contained in the Textarea. The initial value of this property is the same as the defaultValue property.
Methods
blur( )
Yields the keyboard focus and returns nothing.
focus( )
Grabs the keyboard focus and returns nothing.
select( )
Selects the entire contents of the text area. Returns nothing.
Event Handlers
onblur
Invoked when input focus is lost.
onchange
Invoked when the user changes the value in the Textarea element and moves the keyboard focus elsewhere. This event handler is invoked only when the user completes an edit in the Textarea element.
