The Struts 2.0 framework provide textarea input element through the<s:textarea></s:textarea> tag. 
This tag provide the facility to get textarea input .
The Struts 2 textarea component provide the following <s:textarea></s:textarea> tag:

<textarea name="address" cols="40" rows="10" id="s" label="Address"></textarea>

 
Directory Structure of <s:textarea> tag Example in Struts 2.0 Using MyEclipse IDE



index.jsp

<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s"%>
<h3>Struts 2 Framework TextArea Tag example</h3>

<s:form action="txtarea">
<s:textarea name="address" label="Address" cols="20" rows="10"></s:textarea>
<s:submit value="Submit"></s:submit>
</s:form>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.5" 
	xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
	xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" 
	xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee 
	http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd">
  
  <filter>
  <filter-name>f1</filter-name>
  <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class>
  </filter>
  <filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>f1</filter-name>
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
  </filter-mapping>
</web-app>

struts.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts PUBLIC "-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration
2.1//EN" "http://struts.apache.org/dtds/struts-2.1.dtd">
<struts>
<package name="demo" extends="struts-default">
<action name="txtarea" class="org.r4r.TextAreaAction">
<result name="success">/success.jsp</result>
</action>
</package>
</struts>

TextAreaAction.java

package org.r4r;

public class TextAreaAction {
	private String address;
	
	public String execute(){
		return "success";
	}

	public String getAddress() {
		return address;
	}

	public void setAddress(String address) {
		this.address = address;
	}
	

}

success.jsp

<%@taglib uri="/struts-tags" prefix="s" %>
<h3>Struts 2 Framework TextArea Tag example</h3>
<br/>
My Address :-<s:property value="address"/>

Output





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