HTMLTextAreaElement: value 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 value
property of the HTMLTextAreaElement
interface represents the value of the <textarea>
element as a string, which is an empty string if the widget contains no content. It returns or sets the raw value contained in the control.
Value
A string containing the contents of the <textarea>
element.
Examples
js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
const oldText = textArea.value;
textArea.value = oldText.toUpperCase();
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # dom-textarea-value-dev |
Browser compatibility
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