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- noun
- /ˈtɛkstˌɛr.eɪ/
- Specialized
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área de texto
- In an input box, if you press RETURN/ENTER, you submit the form. In a textarea, pressing RETURN produces a line break. How do you make it so that on RETURN keydown, instead of producing a line break, it submits the form, and in SHIFT+RETURN, it produces the line break?
Examples
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A theme options page should contain no more than maybe a dozen input elements, and virtually none of them should be a textarea.
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I presume this is because a new textarea with the same name is added to the DOM, so maybe I will need a unique name for each added textarea after all.
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Hmm, that's an idea, by the way, to add a rich text editor to the taxonomy description textarea!
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But this solution causes another problem: if the user adds a new quote and then clicks the 'add text area' button, the text entered into the first textarea disappears.
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Perhaps blogging tools need to adapt to more short-form uses and have posting interfaces that seem more accommodating rather than a massive empty textarea with tons of options from slug to categories.
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To write a long comment, simply type it into the textarea provided on the webpage.
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Students often use the textarea to submit their essays online.
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In the form, you will find a textarea where you can enter your feedback.
Synonyms
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3.2
An area on a screen or in a document where you can type and show words
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Morphology
Etymology
Textarea is a modern compound of text ('written words on a screen') and area ('space'). So a textarea is a box or space on your computer where you can type several lines of text.