Form, textarea, input problem

Here is the rough draft which works with my PHP and validation fine"

<form method="POST" action="contact.php">

<table border="4" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="2">
<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
Fields marked (*) are required
</td>
<tr>

<tr>
<td width="30%">
Member Name:
</td>
<td width="70%">
<input type="text" name="Name">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
Email Address:*
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="EmailFrom">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
Member Number:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="MemberNumber">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
Number in Party:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="NumberinParty">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td>
Comments or questions:
</td>
<td>
<input type="text" name="Comments">
</td>
</tr>

<tr>
<td colspan="2" align="center">
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
</td>
</tr>

</table>

</form>

but if you change <input type="text" name="Comments">

to <textarea name="Comments">

the whole form and table falls apart... but i need a textarea for comments

i had zero problems with my php or javascript but this is holding me up and i am too tired and sleep deprived to fix it at this point.

please advise.

textarea require rows and cols attributes. Check if this is the problem.


<textarea name="mytxt" rows="8" cols="82"></textarea>


best regards

For some reason when I change it from "input" to "textarea" the rest of the form just falls apart, cells dissapear. Even dreamweavers color coding of different things allk goes to black. Usually form elements are in orange in DW and after the change of tags its all just black and nothing works. my submit button even dissipates.

its really weird. any help would be awesome. did i leave out a tag or add an extra one? i dont see it but im sure thats the culprit because even using the DW shortcuts to add the textarea tag causes the same problem.

For some reason when I change it from "input" to "textarea" the rest of the form just falls apart, cells dissapear. Even dreamweavers color coding of different things allk goes to black. Usually form elements are in orange in DW and after the change of tags its all just black and nothing works. my submit button even dissipates.

its really weird. any help would be awesome. did i leave out a tag or add an extra one? i dont see it but im sure thats the culprit because even using the DW shortcuts to add the textarea tag causes the same problem.
first step to solve something is to identify the problem and your problem have nothing to do with html.

sorry but I don't use dreamweaver and I can't help you

best regards

SOLVED!

Well it wasnt a dreamweaver issue. It appears that 'textarea' requires a closing tag even though 'input' does not.

i had this
<td><textarea name="com"></td>

but that didnt work. it needs to be one of these to work and not destroy the form.
<td><textarea name="com"></textarea></td>

or

<td><textarea name="com" /></td>

thanks guys, this forum is awesome