# Textarea html tag missing

**URL:** <https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092>\
**Category:** HTML\
**Created:** [June 11, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092 "2018-06-11T07:01:50Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![anon42905246](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon42905246](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon42905246)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 7:01am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092/1 "2018-06-11T07:01:50Z")

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Hello,

what do I need to get a multiline text input in URCap Node?

If I use `input` with type `text`, it allows only for single line input. I would like to achieve something like `Script Code` node with `File` chosen.

The HTML tag for this is `<textarea>`, but it is not supported. Is there any workaround?

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**Author:** ![roman.reiner](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.universal-robots.com/roman.reiner/32/1294_2.png) [@roman.reiner](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/roman.reiner)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2018, 2:13pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092/2 "2018-06-11T14:13:09Z")

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Here is a workaround you can use. Use CSS to change the width and height of the input box to make it appear as a text area. Then whenever the user enters a string just add that to the pre-existing entries. Here is one way of handling the text.  
 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/universal_robots/original/1X/31c7a3bb390ce0d1e2aa4b87f9c5dc42a05f619a.png)

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**Author:** ![anon42905246](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon42905246](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon42905246)\
**Post date:** [June 12, 2018, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092/3 "2018-06-12T04:55:23Z")

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Hey, thanks for an idea. Looks like this would work for logging (as your code states). Am I right? I am looking for something more like a text editor.

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**Author:** ![anon42905246](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e9a140/32.png) [@anon42905246](https://forum.universal-robots.com/u/anon42905246)\
**Post date:** [August 24, 2018, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.universal-robots.com/t/textarea-html-tag-missing/2092/4 "2018-08-24T12:02:17Z")

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I’m still looking.  
I tried to use JTextArea, but it is impossible to attach keyboard to it.

Poking @jbm to get visibility. 😉