inputTextArea is an extension to the HTML <textarea> component with special capabilities such as auto-growing, auto-resizing, and remaining-character count.
A basic definition for the input text area would be as follows:
<p:inputTextarea value="#{inputTextAreaController.value}" />This will render an input text area with default value rows='3' and cols='20' as shown in the following screenshot:
The component also provides auto-resizing with the autoResize attribute that allows us to expand the height automatically when the text input overflows. The default value is false.
<p:inputTextarea value="#{inputTextAreaController.value}" autoResize="true"/>Like the HTML <textarea> component, we can also specify the rows and cols attributes to specify the size of the text area component in rows and columns.