Htmlarea

End Tag: Required
Support Key: 2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O		 What is it?
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What is it?
The HTMLAREA element is similar to the TEXTAREA element (a multi-line editing control), but it also allows for nested HTML markup. The default HTMLAREA behavior allows the user to add, modify, and resize content and objects within it. When submitted as part of a form, the content and any HTML markup embedded within the HTMLAREA is passed to the form processing script.

Common Attributes
%Core%
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
%Events%
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%Language%
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%Data%
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O

Specific Attributes
Accesskey
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This is a method of giving access/focus to an active HTML element using a keyboard character. This is a common GUI paradigm also known as a "keyboard shortcut" or "keyboard accelerator" A single character is used as the value of this attribute. In addition, a platform-dependent key is usually used in combination with the ACCESSKEY character to access the functionality of the active field.
Values:
A single, case-insensitive alphanumeric character from a browser's character set.
Cols
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? Yes
Description:
This attribute indicates the visible number of columns in the Htmlarea field.
Values: Positive integers
Disabled
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This is a stand-alone attribute which indicates the element is initially non-functional.
Values: NA
Name
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? Yes
Description:
This is a required attribute that associates a symbolic name to the field for submittal to the form processing script.
Values: Alphanumeric characters
Readonly
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This is a stand-alone attribute which tells the browser that content in the field may not be modified by the reader.
Values: NA
Rows
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? Yes
Description:
This attribute indicates the visible number of rows in the Htmlarea field.
Values: Positive integers
Tabindex
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
"Tabbing" is a method of giving access/focus to an active HTML element using a standard keyboard sequence. All the active elements in a document can be cycled through using this sequence (ex: Windows TAB key.) The order of the active elements in this cycle is usually the order they occur in the document, but the TABINDEX attribute allows a different order to be established. The use of this attribute should create the following tabbing order cycle if the browser supports the attribute:
  1. Active elements using the TABINDEX attribute with positive integers are navigated first. Low values are navigated first.
  2. Active elements not specifying any TABINDEX attribute
Those elements carrying a DISABLED attribute or using negative TABINDEX values do not participate in the tabbing cycle.
Values: Positive or negative integers.
Wrap
2 | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | IE5 | M | N | O
Required? No
Description:
This attribute indicates word-wrapping rules inside the Htmlarea field box.
Values:
   Soft [DEFAULT] - Text is displayed with wordwrapping enabled, but returns and line feeds are stripped upon submittal.
   Hard - Display and submittal both maintain returns and line feeds.
   Off - Word-wrapping is disabled. Lines appear exactly as entered.
Example
<htmlarea><b>text before</b><img SRC="image.gif"></htmlarea>
Parent Model
%In-line Parent% | %Block Parent%
Content Model
%In-line Content% | %Block Content%
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