// Create a text area with some initial text
    JTextArea textarea = new JTextArea("Initial Text");
    
    // Create a text area with some initial text and a default number of rows and columns.
    // This number of rows and columns controls the preferred width and height of the component;
    // each row and column is rougly the size of an M in the current font.
    int rows = 20;
    int cols = 30;
    textarea = new JTextArea("Initial Text", rows, cols);

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