HTMLTextAreaElement: cols property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The cols
property of the HTMLTextAreaElement
interface is a positive integer representing the visible width of the multi-line text control, in average character widths. It reflects the <textarea>
element's cols
attribute.
Value
A positive integer. Defaults to 20
.
Examples
js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
textArea.cols = 80;
Specifications
Specification |
---|
HTML Standard # dom-textarea-cols |
Browser compatibility
BCD tables only load in the browser
See also
<textarea>
HTMLTextAreaElement.rows
HTMLTextAreaElement.wrap
- CSS
resize
property