Display in textarea - what's wrong?

Hi !

I am at a loss. My page contains a form with the following text area..

<textarea name="textbody" value="type anything in here" cols=80 rows=2 wrap="soft"></textarea>

Surely this should display the value ="type anything in here" in the textbox ? I cannot work out why I am getting a blank box as if the value is not specified. The form works great otherwise.

Lesley

Originally posted by Lesley
Instead of:<textarea name="textbody" value="type anything in here" cols=80 rows=2 wrap="soft"></textarea>

Try:


<input type="textarea" name="textbody" value="type anything in here" cols=80 rows=2 wrap="soft">


I think that value is an attribute of input and not of textarea. Cols and Rows don't seem to work though

:cool:

<textarea name="textbody" cols=80 rows=2 wrap="soft">Type anything in here</textarea>

Originally posted by MCookie
:cool:

<textarea name="textbody" cols=80 rows=2 wrap="soft">Type anything in here</textarea> Oh yeah...that too! LOL.

Actually Mark - your version seemed to ignore the sizing of my box.

Thank you for trying though -

MCookie seems to have the answer, many thanks !

Lesley