The title attribute on a <textarea> tag adds a tooltip with title text to the textarea.
Hovering the mouse over the textarea will display the tooltip.
A title attribute on a <textarea>.
Hover over the textarea to see the tooltip.
<textarea title="Rembrandt van Rijn" rows="6" cols="75">
Rembrandt van Rijn was a Dutch draughtsman, painter, and printmaker.
An innovative and prolific master in three media, he is generally
considered one of the greatest visual artists in the history of
art and the most important in Dutch art history.
</textarea>
The title attributes attaches additional information to the <textarea> element.
The title value displays as a tooltip.
The tooltip displays when the textarea element is hovered.
<textarea title="value">
| Value | Description |
|---|---|
| value | A string value. A title can span multiple lines by including newline or carriage-return characters: or 
. |
Here is when title support started for each browser:
 Chrome
|
1.0 | Sep 2008 |
 Firefox
|
1.0 | Sep 2002 |
 IE/Edge
|
1.0 | Aug 1995 |
 Opera
|
1.0 | Jan 2006 |
 Safari
|
1.0 | Jan 2003 |
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