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HTMLTextAreaElement: wrap 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 wrap property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface indicates how the control should wrap the value for form submission. It reflects the <textarea> element's wrap attribute. Note that the "hard" value only has an effect when the cols attribute is also set.

Value

See wrap for the possible values. Defaults to "soft".

Examples

const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
const oldWrap = textArea.wrap;
textArea.wrap = "hard"; // Add line breaks (CR+LF) during form submission

Specifications

Browser compatibility

Desktop Mobile
Chrome Edge Firefox Opera Safari Chrome Android Firefox for Android Opera Android Safari on IOS Samsung Internet WebView Android WebView on iOS
wrap 16 12 4 ≤12.1 6 18 4 ≤12.1 6 1.0 4.4 6

See also

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https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTextAreaElement/wrap