HTML Attributes for <TEXTAREA ...>
COLS
ROWS

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COLS indicates how many characters (not pixels) wide the text area should be. ROWS indicates how many rows should be in the text area. Both attributes are required in the <TEXTAREA ...> tag. These attributes do not set any limit on how much can be typed in, just how much of the textarea is visible.

Here's a comparison between some small and large values of these attributes: 

<TEXTAREA NAME="few" COLS=10 ROWS=2></TEXTAREA>


<TEXTAREA NAME="some" COLS=50 ROWS=5></TEXTAREA>


<TEXTAREA NAME="lot" COLS=80 ROWS=20></TEXTAREA>

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While the values you choose depend on the situation, we usually find that COLS and ROWS (the second example) give a nice typing space without taking up too much page.

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