Why did the specifiers of HTML decide to create a separate TEXTAREA tag instead of adding its features to the INPUT tag?
I realize that textarea allows one to specify the height and width of the input box, but couldn't that have been done by adding properties to the input tag? I'm interested in what considerations led to the decision to making textarea its own entity.
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Textareas were intended for "multiline" input. So far so good, but why a separate tag? Because a linebreak inside a value="" attribute was not considered well-formed.
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-
