Question

Which element is used to create multi-line text input?

(a) text

(b) textarea

(c) submit

(d) radio button

The question was posed to me by my school principal while I was bunking the class.

This interesting question is from Input Types for Forms in chapter HTML Markup, Forms, Video, Audio & Other Multimedia of HTML

Answer 1

Correct choice is (b) textarea

The explanation: For creating multi-line text input we use <textarea> element. This is not empty element i.e. it requires both opening tag and closing tag. The cols attribute defines a width of the text area. The row attributes the number of rows that the textarea can require.