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Select and Textarea

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select creates a dropdown with option elements. Use optgroup to group related options. textarea provides multi-line text input. Set rows for initial height and allow resize: vertical in CSS so users can expand it.

Select and Textarea

<select name="country">
    <option value="">-- Choose --</option>
    <optgroup label="Asia">
        <option value="in">India</option>
        <option value="jp">Japan</option>
    </optgroup>
</select>

<textarea name="message" rows="5" cols="40"></textarea>

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Select and Textarea

Select and Textarea