A Textarea object is a form element and must be defined within a FORM tag.
Textarea objects can be updated (redrawn) dynamically by setting the value property (this.value).
To begin a new line in a Textarea object, you can use a newline character. Although this character varies from platform to platform (Unix is \n, Windows is \r, and Macintosh is \n), JavaScript checks for all newline characters before setting a string-valued property and translates them as needed for the user's platform. You could also enter a newline character programmatically--one way is to test the navigator.appVersion property to determine the current platform, then set the newline character accordingly. See navigator.appVersion for an example.