is there a form alternative to text-area that is multi-line(not like input field)
<p>I would like to know if there is a multiline textarea you can put in a form that looks like this:</p>

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<pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;form action="form.php" method="POST"&gt;
    &lt;input name="field2" type="text" /&gt;
    &lt;input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit"&gt;
&lt;/form&gt;</code></pre>
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<p>as you can see, the php script is reliant on the FORM tag, is there any way I can make the textarea actually work in the form like an input element?(what i am trying to do is use php to save a text file server side when button clicked)</p>