AOLpress Help
Text Areas 
Add a Text Area:
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Position the cursor where you want the Text Area to be.
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Click the TArea button on the form palette
to see this window, which allows you to insert a text area (a scrollable
area in which the user can type more than one line of text) into a form.
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Type a Form Tag to give this field a name. The Form Tag is required
and must be unique in the form.
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You can provide Initial Text to be displayed within the text area
by default and to be submitted with the form data if the user does not change
it.
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Optionally specify the Rows (number of rows) and Cols (number
of columns) to set the size of the Text Area in the page. A user may enter
more character than the number of rows and columns can display, but the
horizontal and vertical scroll bars allow the user to read everything in
the text area.
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Click OK, and the text area appears where the cursor was positioned.
Every element in a form must have a "Form Tag" to name the field or
button. This name identifies the fields that contained each value when the
results are sent to the form handler. When a form is submitted, then the
information sent to the form handler for a text area will contain "<Form
Tag>=<Contents of the Text Area>".