The HTML <textarea> element represents a multi-line plain-text editing control.

Content categories:
Flow content, phrasing content, Interactive content, listed, labelable, resettable, and submittable form-associated element.

Permitted content:
Character data.

Tag omission:
None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.

Permitted parent elements:
Any element that accepts phrasing content.

DOM interface:
HTMLTextareaElement
