HTML rows attribute
Description
Purpose of the HTML rows attribute is to define number of rows in a textarea element and list of lengths (of rows) in a frameset.
Supported elements
HTML rows attribute supports textarea and frameset elements.
Syntax
<ElementName rows="value" >.....</ElementName>
Where ElementName is any supported element.
Type of value
Number for textarea. Percentage or relative length for frameset.
Value
For text area a number indicating number of rows.
For frameset a list of, number followed by % or * (indicating relative length) for specifying length of frames.
Default value
Default value of HTML rows attribute for frameset is 100% which indicates one row.
Supported doctypes
HTML 4.01 strict, HTML 4.01 transitional, HTML 4.01 frameset for textarea.
HTML 4.01 frameset for frameset.
Example of HTML rows attribute with textarea element
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Example of HTML rows attribute with textarea element</title> </head> <body> <form name="user_info" action="action.php" method="post"> Name : <input type="text" name="name" /><br/> email : <input type="text" name="email" /><br/> Describe yourself : <br/> <textarea rows="10" colos="10" name="describe_yourself"> </textarea><br/> <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </body> </html>
Result
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Example of HTML rows attribute with textarea element
Example of HTML rows attribute with frameset element
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <title>Example of HTML rows attribute with frameset element</title> </head> <frameset rows="20%,*,20%" > <frame src="../../html/attributes/header.html" frameborder="1" name="header" title="Header window"/> <frame src="../../html/attributes/content.html" frameborder="0" name="content" title="Content window"/> <frame src="../../html/attributes/footer.html" frameborder="0" name="footer" title="footer window"/> </frameset> </html>
Result
