IHTMLTextAreaElement interface

This interface specifies a multiline text input control.

Members

The IHTMLTextAreaElement interface inherits from the IDispatch interface. IHTMLTextAreaElement also has these types of members:

The IHTMLTextAreaElement interface has these methods.

Method	Description
createTextRange	Creates a TextRange object for the element.
select	Highlights the input area of a form element.

The IHTMLTextAreaElement interface has these properties.

Property	Description
cols	Sets or retrieves the width of the object.
defaultValue	Sets or retrieves the initial contents of the object.
disabled	Sets or retrieves a value that indicates whether the user can interact with the object.
form	Retrieves a reference to the form that the object is embedded in.
name	Sets or retrieves the name of the object.
readOnly	Sets or retrieves the value indicated whether the content of the object is read-only.
rows	Sets or retrieves the number of horizontal rows contained in the object.
status	Sets or retrieves the value indicating whether the control is selected.
type	Retrieves the type of control.
value	Retrieves or sets the text in the entry field of the textArea element.
wrap	Sets or retrieves how to handle wordwrapping in the object.

The default font has a fixed number of characters per horizontal inch.