How do I display data from a table in a textarea

Eggweezer · 12-12-2012, 10:24 PM

I am pulling a variable (which is actually a long string) from a dbase table, and trying to display it in a "textarea" in a form.

It does work, BUT... it does not display it as a textarea as you would expect with 10 rows and 100 columns.

It just displays as only 1 row of about 20 columns. Why does it not display as a "textarea"? All the data is inside there (if you scroll to the right).

Please help me! Thank you.

Here is my line of code:
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<input type="textarea" cols="100" rows="10" id="paragraph" name="paragraph"value="<?php echo $paragraph; ?>" />
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PS: I'm sorry, I was not sure how to display the code with the [code] & [icode]

Old Pedant · 12-12-2012, 10:33 PM

Ummm...because you forgot your basic HTML?

Code:

<textarea cols="100" rows="10" name="paragraph"><?php echo $paragraph; ?></textarea>

Usually no point to giving a <textarea> an id. The name is usually all that is needed.

Eggweezer · 12-12-2012, 10:38 PM

Duh! I guess am tired tonight.

Thank you very much Old pendant.