method
textarea
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textarea(name = "", cols = 70, rows = 10)
public
Generate a TextArea element, as a String.
name is the name of the textarea. cols is the number of columns and rows is the number of rows in the display.
Alternatively, the attributes can be specified as a hash.
The body is provided by the passed-in no-argument block
textarea("name") # = textarea("NAME" => "name", "COLS" => 70, "ROWS" => 10) textarea("name", 40, 5) # = textarea("NAME" => "name", "COLS" => 40, "ROWS" => 5)