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Mohammad Saberi
Mohammad Saberi

Reputation: 13166

PHP can not handle inserting content for TEXTAREA if value contains HTML tags or special characters

I have a table with some fields. I want to put their contents into HTML inputs.
Everything is ok, but I have just one problem on Textarea.
I want to fill textarea with stored contents. If it has no HTML tags or special characters, the code I have used works fine, otherwise I can not see anything for textarea.
This is my code: 

<?php
$query = mysql_query ("SELECT description FROM tblTest");
$returned_content = mysql_result($query,0);
?>
<textarea name="description"><?php echo $returned_content; ?></textarea>

For example if the field contains 123 , I can see this value for textarea. But if it be 123<br />321 I can not see anything.

What's the problem?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1104

Answers (2)

Balaji Perumal
Balaji Perumal

Reputation: 850

Try with this

<textarea name="description"><?php echo html_entity_decode($returned_content); ?></textarea>

Add this between head tags

<meta charset="UTF-8">

Try this also

<textarea name="description"><?php echo htmlentities($returned_content); ?></textarea>

Upvotes: 1

Marc B
Marc B

Reputation: 360602

You need to escape the html metacharacters:

<textarea><?php echo htmlspecialchars($returned_content) ?></textarea>
                     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Upvotes: 1

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