HTML rows attribute

rows attribute decides the height of the text area. rows attribute represents the number of lines.

<textarea cols="25" rows="9">
  It is textarea. It is editable and resizeable by default.But the size can be fixed. 
</textarea>
</>

Attribute values

All possible values of rows attribute

The value of rows attribute is a valid positive integer. The default value for rows attribute is '2'.

<textarea> Here the cols and rows attributes are not specified. But both cols and rows have 20 and 2 value respectively. </textarea>
Try </>

The height attribute may be used to define the height of the textual area.

<textarea style="height:500px; width:500px;"> The height of textarea is specified by the height attribute. </textarea>
Try </>

Related Tags

The tags that support rows attribute

<textarea> tag

The textarea supports the rows attribute.



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