How to add a large multi line text box in a HTML form

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128 lessons / 17 hours 5 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Hi there, my name is Daniel Scott and together we’re going to learn how to build professional responsive websites. which look good on mobiles, tablets and desktop screens.

We will build 4 sites together...
  • a simple but elegant restaurant website.
  • a bike repair website. 
  • a responsive portfolio website.
  • a Bootstrap website.  

We cover everything you need to build your first website. From creating your first page through to uploading your website to the internet. We’ll use the world’s most popular (and free) web design tool called Visual Studio Code.

There are exercise files you can download and then work along with me. At the end of each video I have a downloadable version of where we are in the process so that you can compare your project with mine. This will enable you to see easily where you might have a problem.

We will delve into all the good stuff such as how to create your very own mobile burger menu from scratch learning some basic JavaScript and jQuery. 

 You will...
  • Learn how to work with responsive images and icons. and stunning full screen background images and probably one too many gradients. 
  • Learn how to create forms and to choose great fonts for your website. 
  • Learn how to work with Bootstrap 4 to easily add carousels, cards and complex looking menus. 
  • Setup a domain name with hosting so that your website is live on the internet for others to see.  

There are fun class projects for you to work on which will enable you to practice what you learn. By the end of this course you’ll have a great understanding of important web design topics like HTML5, CSS3, Flex box, Responsive design and Bootstrap.   

If that all sounds a little too fancy - don’t worry, this course is aimed at people new to web design and who have never coded before. We’ll start right at the beginning and work our way through step by step. 

Who am I? 

I’m Dan, and I’ve been building websites for about 15 years now. I am award winning instructor, and have won a MAX Master award for the last 2 years in a row at the prestigious Adobe Max conference.

Time to upgrade yourself?
Sign up for the course and let’s learn how to build responsive websites.

Course duration 16 hours 42 mins
Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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Transcript

Hi there, this video is going to show you how to put in a big Text box with multiple lines and placeholder text. If for the life of you, you can't find it, it's because it's not an input like these other ones. It's just called plain old Text Area, but let's work out how to do it together now in the video. 

First thing, let's put it inside its own little Div, like we have here, the input wrapper, just to keep it on its own line. Here we go. How do we find it? The weird thing is that it's not an input type. So there's lots of inputs but weirdly it's not one of those. It's just called Text Area. Strange. There's a lot of the same functionality, just weird name. 

Now name and idea is the same. This is going to be our message, we can do the same for message. Columns and rows is interesting, I'm going to turn Wrapping back on. Every time I restart this thing, wrapping, wrap, wrap, wrap, you, toggle Word Wrap. So columns and rows, rows are easy, it's just how tall it is, and columns aren't columns like we've been talking about in this class. It's just how many characters wide. So it's 30, yeah 30 letters wide. Let's have a little look by default, let's go and have a look. I haven't launched it today, there we go, go live. 

There it is, that's my Text Area. So let's adjust rows down to 5, just so you can see. And we'll go columns, let's go 100. Crazy times, there you go. You can do other things to it as well, like before, so this is where, actually nothing goes inside of this, because that's where the actual people type, but just before it closes there, after rows of five, I'm going to put in space, I'm going to put in placeholder. This is a, this is just the placeholder text like before. There it is there, nice. 

Nothing else I can really tell you about that one, yeah, that's it. We're going to style it, and the text inside of it later on, after we've kind of gone through a few of them. I'll keep these all separate so that you can find them easy. That is the big box that you can type multiple lines into. Also known as Text Area. All right, next video.
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