HtmlHelper.TextArea Method (String, String)

Returns an HTML multi-line text input (text area) control that has the specified name and value.

Namespace:  System.Web.WebPages.Html
Assembly:  System.Web.WebPages (in System.Web.WebPages.dll)

Syntax

'Declaration
Public Function TextArea ( _
    name As String, _
    value As String _
) As IHtmlString
'Usage
Dim instance As HtmlHelper 
Dim name As String 
Dim value As String 
Dim returnValue As IHtmlString 

returnValue = instance.TextArea(name, _
    value)
public IHtmlString TextArea(
    string name,
    string value
)
public:
IHtmlString^ TextArea(
    String^ name, 
    String^ value
)
member TextArea : 
        name:string * 
        value:string -> IHtmlString
public function TextArea(
    name : String, 
    value : String
) : IHtmlString

Parameters

  • name
    Type: System.String
    The value to assign to the name attribute of the HTML textrarea element.

Return Value

Type: System.Web.IHtmlString
The HTML markup that represents the text area control.

Exceptions

Exception Condition
ArgumentException

name is null reference (Nothing in Visual Basic) or empty.

Remarks

The returned markup consists of an HTML textarea element in the following form:

<textarea name="name" rows="2" cols="20">
  value
</textarea>

See Also

Reference

HtmlHelper Class

TextArea Overload

System.Web.WebPages.Html Namespace