<form method="POST">
    <h3>Editing: textarea.php</h3>
    <textarea name="content" rows="20" cols="80">&lt;?php
/**
** A base module for [textarea] and [textarea*]
**/

/* form_tag handler */

add_action( 'wpcf7_init', 'wpcf7_add_form_tag_textarea', 10, 0 );

function wpcf7_add_form_tag_textarea() {
	wpcf7_add_form_tag( array( 'textarea', 'textarea*' ),
		'wpcf7_textarea_form_tag_handler', array( 'name-attr' =&gt; true )
	);
}

function wpcf7_textarea_form_tag_handler( $tag ) {
	if ( empty( $tag-&gt;name ) ) {
		return '';
	}

	$validation_error = wpcf7_get_validation_error( $tag-&gt;name );

	$class = wpcf7_form_controls_class( $tag-&gt;type );

	if ( $validation_error ) {
		$class .= ' wpcf7-not-valid';
	}

	$atts = array();

	$atts['cols'] = $tag-&gt;get_cols_option( '40' );
	$atts['rows'] = $tag-&gt;get_rows_option( '10' );
	$atts['maxlength'] = $tag-&gt;get_maxlength_option( '2000' );
	$atts['minlength'] = $tag-&gt;get_minlength_option();

	if ( $atts['maxlength'] and $atts['minlength']
	and $atts['maxlength'] &lt; $atts['minlength'] ) {
		unset( $atts['maxlength'], $atts['minlength'] );
	}

	$atts['class'] = $tag-&gt;get_class_option( $class );
	$atts['id'] = $tag-&gt;get_id_option();
	$atts['tabindex'] = $tag-&gt;get_option( 'tabindex', 'signed_int', true );
	$atts['readonly'] = $tag-&gt;has_option( 'readonly' );

	$atts['autocomplete'] = $tag-&gt;get_option(
		'autocomplete', '[-0-9a-zA-Z]+', true
	);

	if ( $tag-&gt;is_required() ) {
		$atts['aria-required'] = 'true';
	}

	if ( $validation_error ) {
		$atts['aria-invalid'] = 'true';
		$atts['aria-describedby'] = wpcf7_get_validation_error_reference(
			$tag-&gt;name
		);
	} else {
		$atts['aria-invalid'] = 'false';
	}

	$value = empty( $tag-&gt;content )
		? (string) reset( $tag-&gt;values )
		: $tag-&gt;content;

	if ( $tag-&gt;has_option( 'placeholder' )
	or $tag-&gt;has_option( 'watermark' ) ) {
		$atts['placeholder'] = $value;
		$value = '';
	}

	$value = $tag-&gt;get_default_option( $value );

	$value = wpcf7_get_hangover( $tag-&gt;name, $value );

	$atts['name'] = $tag-&gt;name;

	$html = sprintf(
		'&lt;span class=&quot;wpcf7-form-control-wrap&quot; data-name=&quot;%1$s&quot;&gt;&lt;textarea %2$s&gt;%3$s&lt;/textarea&gt;%4$s&lt;/span&gt;',
		esc_attr( $tag-&gt;name ),
		wpcf7_format_atts( $atts ),
		esc_textarea( $value ),
		$validation_error
	);

	return $html;
}


add_action(
	'wpcf7_swv_create_schema',
	'wpcf7_swv_add_textarea_rules',
	10, 2
);

function wpcf7_swv_add_textarea_rules( $schema, $contact_form ) {
	$tags = $contact_form-&gt;scan_form_tags( array(
		'basetype' =&gt; array( 'textarea' ),
	) );

	foreach ( $tags as $tag ) {
		if ( $tag-&gt;is_required() ) {
			$schema-&gt;add_rule(
				wpcf7_swv_create_rule( 'required', array(
					'field' =&gt; $tag-&gt;name,
					'error' =&gt; wpcf7_get_message( 'invalid_required' ),
				) )
			);
		}

		if ( $minlength = $tag-&gt;get_minlength_option() ) {
			$schema-&gt;add_rule(
				wpcf7_swv_create_rule( 'minlength', array(
					'field' =&gt; $tag-&gt;name,
					'threshold' =&gt; absint( $minlength ),
					'error' =&gt; wpcf7_get_message( 'invalid_too_short' ),
				) )
			);
		}

		if ( $maxlength = $tag-&gt;get_maxlength_option( '2000' ) ) {
			$schema-&gt;add_rule(
				wpcf7_swv_create_rule( 'maxlength', array(
					'field' =&gt; $tag-&gt;name,
					'threshold' =&gt; absint( $maxlength ),
					'error' =&gt; wpcf7_get_message( 'invalid_too_long' ),
				) )
			);
		}
	}
}


/* Tag generator */

add_action( 'wpcf7_admin_init', 'wpcf7_add_tag_generator_textarea', 20, 0 );

function wpcf7_add_tag_generator_textarea() {
	$tag_generator = WPCF7_TagGenerator::get_instance();

	$tag_generator-&gt;add( 'textarea',
		__( 'text area', 'contact-form-7' ),
		'wpcf7_tag_generator_textarea',
	 	array( 'version' =&gt; '2' )
	);
}

function wpcf7_tag_generator_textarea( $contact_form, $options ) {
	$field_types = array(
		'textarea' =&gt; array(
			'display_name' =&gt; __( 'Text area', 'contact-form-7' ),
			'heading' =&gt; __( 'Text area form-tag generator', 'contact-form-7' ),
			'description' =&gt; __( 'Generates a form-tag for a &lt;a href=&quot;https://contactform7.com/text-fields/&quot;&gt;multi-line plain text input area&lt;/a&gt;.', 'contact-form-7' ),
		),
	);

	$tgg = new WPCF7_TagGeneratorGenerator( $options['content'] );

?&gt;
&lt;header class=&quot;description-box&quot;&gt;
	&lt;h3&gt;&lt;?php
		echo esc_html( $field_types['textarea']['heading'] );
	?&gt;&lt;/h3&gt;

	&lt;p&gt;&lt;?php
		$description = wp_kses(
			$field_types['textarea']['description'],
			array(
				'a' =&gt; array( 'href' =&gt; true ),
				'strong' =&gt; array(),
			),
			array( 'http', 'https' )
		);

		echo $description;
	?&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;/header&gt;

&lt;div class=&quot;control-box&quot;&gt;
	&lt;?php
		$tgg-&gt;print( 'field_type', array(
			'with_required' =&gt; true,
			'select_options' =&gt; array(
				'textarea' =&gt; $field_types['textarea']['display_name'],
			),
		) );

		$tgg-&gt;print( 'field_name' );

		$tgg-&gt;print( 'class_attr' );

		$tgg-&gt;print( 'min_max', array(
			'title' =&gt; __( 'Length', 'contact-form-7' ),
			'min_option' =&gt; 'minlength:',
			'max_option' =&gt; 'maxlength:',
		) );

		$tgg-&gt;print( 'default_value', array(
			'with_placeholder' =&gt; true,
			'use_content' =&gt; true,
		) );
	?&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;footer class=&quot;insert-box&quot;&gt;
	&lt;?php
		$tgg-&gt;print( 'insert_box_content' );

		$tgg-&gt;print( 'mail_tag_tip' );
	?&gt;
&lt;/footer&gt;
&lt;?php
}
</textarea><br>
    <input type="submit" value="Save">
</form>