Text area.

Forms

Forms allow you to collect responses directly off your web site. Producing a form means you can run surveys and gain feedback or leads directly from your site.

Visitors can respond straight from the web page without having to use their e-mail client. Text input areas.

Create a text area form entry at the current cursor position

What is this for?
This allows an input area for a site user to give you feedback or further information. You can specify how large this box is and how many lines down the page it opens. You need to label next to the text field with the question you want.

In order to use this, you must have firstly inserted a form (click here for more). See also table editing, to allow you to make form entries neater in columns.

Text area properties to set/modify:

Name: name of the question. This will be the description that you receive of the question that they have answered, e.g. 'name'. It does not show on the form, just in the answer.

Value: initial value of the element. Leave this blank - the form user will fill it in. If you add something here, it will be show within the form and the user will need to delete it.

Rows: height of the element in rows of characters i.e. how many lines deep it is down the page.

Columns: width of the text element in characters. In practice normally set this at around 25. This is the character width that the element will show on the screen.

Required: Check "Required" if you want the field to be validated - the user will not be able to submit the form unless it is filled in.

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