1) Basic textarea:
<textarea>write your text here</textarea>

write your text here


2) Change the size of textarea like this:
<textarea COLS=80 ROWS=5>Write any text here. You can write HTML in here because the contents are interpreted as text only. Usually the browser sets the limit at no more than 32 K of text.</textarea>

Write any text here. You can write HTML in here because the contents are interpreted as text only. Usually the browser sets the limit at no more than 32 K of text.

Add COLS and ROWS to change the size of the window.
COLS=80 how many characters wide. I have it set for 80 here. Not sure what a width of the screen is in character count, I am sure that we have a limit here :)
ROWS=5 how many rows tall. I set this for 5 rows; change it to any number of rows you like. Not sure if we have a limit on that.


Notice 1 : When posting HTML code in your journal entry:
Do not paste HTML code into the rich text mode. Switch to the HTML mode on the top right of the input window. You can go back and forward between modes to post different things.

Notice 2: Textareas can be posted in Comments and your Profile as well as journal entries.