HTMLTextAreaElement: cols 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 cols property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface is a positive integer representing the visible width of the multi-line text control, in average character widths. It reflects the <textarea> element's cols attribute.

Value

A positive integer. Defaults to 20.

Examples

js
const textareaElement = document.getElementById("comment");
textArea.cols = 80;

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-textarea-cols

Browser compatibility

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Chrome Android
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Samsung Internet
WebView Android
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