Why is there an element <textarea> instead of <input type="textarea">?
<textarea>
<input type="textarea">
Maybe this is going a bit too far back but…
Also, I’d like to suggest that multiline text fields have a different type (e.g. “textarea") than single-line fields ("text"), as they really are different types of things, and imply different issues (semantics) for client-side handling.
– Marc Andreessen, 11 October 1993
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