Workaround To Add Value To TextArea

Jitish jitish.p at gmail.com
Wed Nov 25 10:46:19 EST 2009


On Nov 25, 8:27 pm, Rami Chowdhury <rami.chowdh... at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 07:19, Victor Subervi <victorsube... at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hi;
> > I've noticed that html doesn't support a "value" attribute for textarea. I
> > have a form in which I enable users to edit data they've entered into my
> > database, and one of the data is a textarea. How do I fill the textarea with
> > the value, or what kind of workaround can I create?
>
> Hi Victor,
>
> You'll find the textarea and input tags differ significantly, even
> though they're both typically used in HTML forms. The W3C page has a
> fair overview of how various parts of HTML forms work in HTML 4.01,
> and it's roughly accurate for XHTML up to 1.1 as well:http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html
>
> HTH,
> Rami
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HI,
  Ok the simplest solution for this is <textarea id="someid"
name="somename">Anything you type between this will be treated as the
value for textarea. </textarea>

Regards
Jitish



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