You problem lies in the html that you are outputting. For normal html <input> tags, you use the "value" attribute to initialize the default display. For <textarea> tags, you do not use the "value" attribute; instead, enclose what you want displayed between the openining <textarea> tag and the closing </textarea> tag. For example:
<input type="text" value"Please edit this textbox"> <textarea>Please edit this textarea</textarea> > -----Original Message----- > From: jas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 10:54 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [PHP-DB] textarea and mysql query > > > I need some help with a query to place the results within a > text area... > here is the code and so far every time I try it out all that > happens is it > displays the textbox but not the results of the query. > <form name="wel_area" method="post" > action="index_confirm.php3 target="box"> > <?php > $record = mysql_fetch_array(@mysql_query("SELECT wel_area FROM > cm_index",$dbh)); > echo "<textarea name='wel_area' value='{$record['wel_area']}' > cols='25' > rows='8'></textarea><br><input type='submit' name='save' > value='save'><br>\n"; > ?> > </form> > Any help would be great. > Jas > > > > -- > PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- PHP Database Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
