HTMLTextAreaElement: rows 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 rows property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface is a positive integer representing the visible text lines of the text control. It reflects the <textarea> element's rows attribute.

Value

A positive integer. Defaults to 2.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
const textLines = textArea.rows;
textArea.rows = textLines + 2;

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-textarea-rows

Browser compatibility

See also