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Add a text area to a form

Applies to: Microsoft Office FrontPage 2003

In Page view, at the bottom of the document window, click Design .
Do one or both of the following:
Add a text area
1. Click in the form or page where you want to add the text area.
2. On the Insert menu, point to Form, and then click Text Area.
  Note If you have not started with a form, by default, Microsoft FrontPage creates a form area with Submit and Reset buttons and inserts the field inside that form area. If FrontPage does not automatically create a form area, the default setting has been changed, and you can reset it.
  How?
  1. On the Tools menu, click Page Options, and then click the General tab.
  2. Locate and select the Automatically enclose form fields within a form check box.
3. Next to the text area box, type the label for that box.
Set the properties of a text area
1. Right-click the text area, and then click Form Field Properties.
2. In the TextArea Box Properties dialog box, in the Name box, type a unique name to identify the text area.
3. If you want text to appear in the text area when a site visitor first opens the form, type the text in the Initial value box.
4. In the Width in characters box, type a number indicating how many characters wide you want the text area to be.
5. In the Number of lines box, type a number indicating how many lines of text you want the text area to be.
6. Click Style to access other options for formatting your form by using cascading style sheets (cascading style sheets (CSS): Declarations, either embedded in a Web page or stored in a separate .css file that is linked to a Web page, that specify the appearance of particular HTML elements.) as an inline style (inline style: A method of applying cascading style sheet properties and values to an element on a page, such as a table. You can use this method even if the page is not linked to an external style sheet or does not contain an embedded style sheet.).