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textAreaTag()

Builds and returns a string containing a text area form control based on the supplied name. Note: Pass any additional arguments like class, rel, and id, and the generated tag will also include those values as HTML attributes.

Name Type Required Default Description
name string Yes See documentation for textFieldTag.
content string No Content to display in textarea on page load.
label string No See documentation for textField.
labelPlacement string No around See documentation for textField.
prepend string No See documentation for textField.
append string No See documentation for textField.
prependToLabel string No See documentation for textField.
appendToLabel string No See documentation for textField. 
<!--- Basic usage usually involves a `label`, `name`, and `password` --->
<cfoutput>
    #textAreaTag(label="Description", name="description", content=params.description)#
</cfoutput>