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I am trying to display the value of a textarea in a form that will enable someone to edit its value. The textarea displays nothing but I checked the database and there is a 2 sentence value. Here is the code I am using:
<textarea rows="5" cols="55" name="P1Bio" value="<?=$record['P1Bio']?>">
</textarea>
P1Bio is the field. On the same form, I am also getting values from textboxes and it is working fine. Here is the code that I am using for text boxes:
<input type="text" size="90" name="P1Email" value="
<?=$record['P1Email']?>">
Can someone please tell me why the textarea is not showing anything? Thank you.
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There is no value attribute with textareas.
You need to put the content in between the open and closing tags like this:
<textarea rows="5" cols="55" name="P1Bio"><?=$record['P1Bio']?></textarea>
Your php needs to be inside the text area
<textarea><? Php code? ></textarea>
Try
<textarea rows="5" cols="55" name="P1Bio><?=$record['P1Bio']?></textarea>
Unlike texts (like <input type="text">), content in textareas are inside the tags:
<textarea rows="5" cols="55" name="P1Bio" value=""><?=$record['P1Bio']?></textarea>
Some information regarding this: HTML Tag