# Working with textarea in JavaScript

In this section of the tutorial, you and I will learn how to work with more advanced forms features. Let's start with the `textarea` tag, which is a multi-line input field.

When working with this tag, there is some nuance. The bottom line is this: the text that will be in tag by default is located between the opening and closing `textarea` tags:

`<textarea id="elem">text</textarea>`

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However, despite this, the tag text should be read and written not through the `innerHTML` property, but through `value`. For example, let's display the text of the above `textarea`:

`let elem = document.querySelector('#elem'); console.log(elem.value); // shows 'text'`

Given a textarea and a paragraph. When textarea loses focus, write its text into the paragraph.

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