HTMLTextAreaElement: cols 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 cols property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface is a positive integer representing the visible width of the multi-line text control, in average character widths. It reflects the <textarea> element's cols attribute.

Value

A positive integer. Defaults to 20.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
textArea.cols = 80;

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-textarea-cols

Browser compatibility

See also