I want to use the features and functionality that the tag offers in browsers. I want to use it merely to hold a large block of information that
Yes you can use textarea tags outside of a form and they will display and allow text to be inserted and edited, but not being tied to a form their uses will likely be limited. Although I suppose you could always use document.getElementById("") for the text area...
Yes, you can use outside of a form,
But you could also use a div element and then use the contenteditable Attribute so that a user can edit the information.
http://html5doctor.com/the-contenteditable-attribute/
Following the standards the textarea
element should be a descendant of a form
element.
HTML5 allows to place textarea
outside the form but have a form
attribute filled.
See: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/HTML_Elements/textarea
But as I know you'll not get any errors in major browsers using textarea
outside the form and without the form
attribute.
For the purpose you've described in your question, you can just use a div
element with vertical scrolling: http://jsfiddle.net/f0t0n/Ybznv/
#log {
height: 256px;
width: 512px;
overflow: auto;
}
Yes, you can use textarea outside of form; there is no problem in it.
PS: But there is no good reason to use textarea out or form. You can use div instead.
yes you can, but if its just scrolling use a div instead and style it like this in css:
example:
div {
overflow-x:scroll;
height:200px;
width:200px;
border:solid black 1px;
}
demo: http://jsbin.com/ugusos/2/edit