<wa-textarea>

Textareas collect multi-line text input from the user, with optional resizing and character counting.

Category

Forms

Built with

Lit

Library

Web Awesome

Author

Web Awesome

Package

@awesome.me/webawesome

Component size

9.8 kB JS (minified + gzipped, JS includes dependencies beyond the library)

Library size

8.2 kB JS (shared by every Web Awesome component, loaded once per page)

Popular

5 out of 5

Downloads

364,100/week · jsDelivr 33,855,650 hits/month (whole @awesome.me/webawesome package)

GitHub stars

1,348

Latest stable version

3.14.0

Last published

Sep 24, 2026

Component last changed

Apr 30, 2026 (in 3.6.0)

License

MIT

Status

stable

• Documentation
• Demo
• Source code

Attributes

• title
• name
• value
• size
• appearance
• label
• hint
• placeholder
• rows
• resize
• disabled
• readonly
• required
• minlength
• maxlength
• autocapitalize
• autocorrect
• autocomplete
• autofocus
• enterkeyhint
• spellcheck
• inputmode
• with-label
• with-hint
• with-count
• custom-error
• dir
• lang
• did-ssr

Slots

• label
• hint

Events

• blur
• change
• focus
• input
• wa-invalid

CSS Parts

• form-control-label
• label
• hint
• textarea
• base
• textarea-wrapper
• textarea-adjuster
• count