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Rows and columns in text box??

How do i make columns and rows to appear in a text box?? For eg in a simple text box as shown below  I want 3 rows and  3 columns to be seen. How do I do this? Thank you.

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<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 2</title>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST">
  <p align="center"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"></p>
</form>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>
<p align="center">&nbsp;</p>

</body>

</html>
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<table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="5" cellpadding="5">
  <tr>
    <td>r1c1</td>
    <td>r1c2</td>
    <td>r1c3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>r2c1</td>
    <td>r2c2</td>
    <td>r2c3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td>r3c1</td>
    <td>r3c2</td>
    <td>r3c3</td>
  </tr>
</table>
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Thank you for the answer. I am looking for the table inside the text area box. Now I am getting the rows and columns only in the form.

<html>

<head>
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body>

<form method="POST">
  <p align="center"><input type="text" name="T1" size="20"><table width="100%"  border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" bordercolor="#111111">
  <tr>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r1c1</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r1c2</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r1c3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r2c1</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r2c2</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r2c3</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r3c1</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r3c2</td>
    <td align="center" style="border-style: solid; border-width: 1">r3c3</td>
  </tr>
</table></p>
</form>

</body>

</html>
An input type=text has only one row.
If you need a multiple row/multiple columns input, use a <textarea>.

You can't display anything but text in an input or textarea.  No tables, images, etc. ONLY TEXT.

-Sam
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Thanks, Sam.
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