The textarea element
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/> <title>The textarea element</title> </head> <body> <form method="post" action="/"> <textarea name="message" rows="6" cols="50"> Hi, This is a test. Thanks James </textarea> </form> </body> </html>