HTMLTextAreaElement: value 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 value property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface represents the value of the <textarea> element as a string, which is an empty string if the widget contains no content. It returns or sets the raw value contained in the control.

Value

A string containing the contents of the <textarea> element.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
const oldText = textArea.value;
textArea.value = oldText.toUpperCase();

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# dom-textarea-value-dev

Browser compatibility

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See also