# Textarea Element Element

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## Table of Contents

- 1 Textarea Element - #textarea {}

## 1 Textarea Element - #textarea {}

The textarea element produces an HTML textarea.

### Usage

    #textarea { text="Some text" }

### Attributes

text - (string)
  Set the textarea's contents.
html_encode - (boolean)
  Set to true to safely html-encode the text.
placeholder - (string)
  Sets the placeholder text (text that will be in the textarea until the user focuses in the textarea). This uses the HTML5 placeholder attribute, which is only supported in newer browsers. To add support for older-browsers, you will need to link a placeholder script in your template. You can do this by adding the following to your template inside the `<head>` section after loading jQuery.

    <script src='/nitrogen/jquery.placeholder.js' type='text/javascript'></script>

html_name - (string)
  The name attribute of the textarea.

### See Also

- base element
- button element
- textbox element
- password element
- checkbox element
- dropdown element
- option element
- jQuery Placeholder Readme

Date: 2012-10-18 03:24:33 CDT

Author: Rusty Klophaus (@rustyio)

Org version 7.8.02 with Emacs version 23

Validate XHTML 1.0

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