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Tony Xu
Tony Xu

Reputation: 3101

HTML repopulate input text or textarea with original text

I want to have a text-field (input type="text") or text-area in html that takes users input. After "submit" clicked, PHP returns results. I want to repopulate the text-field or text-area with original user input. However my code only works with text-field, but not text-area:

This works:

    <INPUT TYPE = "text" NAME = "seqbox" SIZE = 50 PLACEHOLDER = "Enter sequence here" VALUE = "<?php if(isset($_GET['seqbox'])) {echo $_GET['seqbox'];} ?>">

This does not work:

    <TEXTAREA NAME = "seqbox" COLS=100 ROWS=20 PLACEHOLDER = "Enter sequence here" VALUE = "<?php if(isset($_GET['seqbox'])) {echo $_GET['seqbox'];} ?>"></TEXTAREA>

Any idea why? Thanks!

Upvotes: 0

Views: 555

Answers (2)

ceejayoz
ceejayoz

Reputation: 180177

Textareas don't take a value attribute.

<TEXTAREA NAME = "seqbox" COLS=100 ROWS=20 PLACEHOLDER = "Enter sequence here"><?php if(isset($_GET['seqbox'])) {echo $_GET['seqbox'];} ?></TEXTAREA>

A note: you should run $_GET['seqbox'] through htmlspecialchars or malicious users will be able to inject things like JavaScript into your page through a specially crafted URL (an XSS vulnerability).

Upvotes: 0

Benny Lin
Benny Lin

Reputation: 536

Textarea doesn't have a value property. You need to set it in between the element like this:

<TEXTAREA NAME = "seqbox" COLS=100 ROWS=20 PLACEHOLDER = "Enter sequence here">
<?php if(isset($_GET['seqbox'])) {echo $_GET['seqbox'];} ?>
</TEXTAREA>

Upvotes: 1

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