Changes in HTML 5 - <textarea> Tag

What's new in HTML 5

The autofocus="autofocus", form, placeholder and required="required" attributes have been added.

Differences between HTML 5 and earlier versions of HTML

The 2000-2010 Recommendations from the W3C HTML Working Group defined the HTML namespace for the textarea element type name along with the names of all HTML element types. In older (pre-2000) versions of HTML, element type names were not associated with a namespace.