This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The type read-only property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface returns the string "textarea".
The string "textarea".
const textArea = document.querySelector("textarea");
console.log(textArea.type); // "textarea"
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML> # dom-textarea-type-dev> |
| Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Chrome | Edge | Firefox | Opera | Safari | Chrome Android | Firefox for Android | Opera Android | Safari on IOS | Samsung Internet | WebView Android | WebView on iOS | |
type |
1 | 12 | 1 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 18 | 4 | ≤12.1 | 1 | 1.0 | 4.4 | 1 |
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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTextAreaElement/type