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title: Textarea inputs
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The `<textarea>` element behaves similarly to a text input in Svelte — use `bind:value` to create a two-way binding between the `<textarea>` content and the `value` variable:

```html
<textarea bind:value={value}></textarea>
```

In cases like these, where the names match, we can also use a shorthand form:

```html
<textarea bind:value></textarea>
```

This applies to all bindings, not just textareas.