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Aristi
Aristi

Reputation: 67

can't keep data of textarea in an html form

I get data from an html5 form using php and i am trying to keep data of the fields and not be cleared.

It is working for inputs but is failing for textarea(description field).

You can see below that i add a php echo as a value inside the inputs but it's not working for textarea. How can i make this work for textarea as well?

HTML form:

<form method='post' action='entry.php' enctype="multipart/form-data">
<label for="username"> Username: </label>
<input type="text" name="username" id="username" value="<?php echo $username; ?>" /></br>
</br>
<label for="email">Email:</label> 
<input type="email" name="email" value="<?php echo $email; ?>"/> </br></br>
<label>Title of monument:</label>
<input type="textbox" name="title" value="<?php echo $title; ?>" /></br></br>
<label>Description of monument:</label>

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description" value="<?php echo $description; ?>" /></textarea></br></br>
<label>Select image:</label>
<input type="file" name="file"  ></br></br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" name="submit" > 
</form>

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2675

Answers (4)

Dchris
Dchris

Reputation: 3047

Replace 

textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description" value="<?php echo $description; ?>" ></textarea>

with

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description"  ><?php echo $description; ?></textarea>

I added the php echo inside the textarea elements and i removed it from the textarea value attribute. It should do the work.

Upvotes: 3

Hektor
Hektor

Reputation: 1945

You have closed the textarea tag:

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description"  />

Need to remove the closing slash, so your php will be inserted into the textarea!

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description" >     <?php ... ?>     </textarea>

Upvotes: 0

Quentin
Quentin

Reputation: 943100

The value of a textarea element is determined by the text node inside it, not by a value attribute.

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description"><?php
  echo htmlspecialchars($description);
?></textarea>

Upvotes: 2

Silviu-Marian
Silviu-Marian

Reputation: 10907

Textareas don't have a value property.

Instead, you're supposed to put the value directly between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags.

Like so:

<textarea cols="50" rows="6" name="description"><?php 
      echo htmlspecialchars($description);
?></textarea>

And you also need to pass $description through htmlspecialchars(), in case the value in $description contains HTML tags like other <textareas> or so.

Upvotes: 1

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