Landslyde Posted February 20, 2015 Report Posted February 20, 2015 And this is an issue because if the user has made a mistake on the form and has to make a correction, he/she also now has to retype everything in the textarea again before re-submission. And the textarea's the only input device that loses its input. Input boxes are fine, as are the selected select options. Is this a natural behavior? Is there a way around it? Quote
falkencreative Posted February 20, 2015 Report Posted February 20, 2015 When the user submits the form, you'd want to store the data from the textarea, and then insert it back into the textarea when you re-show the form with the error message. Take a look at this tutorial: http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_forms.asp, clicking right through the chapters on making form fields required and validating the data. Specifically look at the "Keep the values in the form" section of http://www.w3schools.com/php/php_form_complete.asp. Quote
Landslyde Posted February 20, 2015 Author Report Posted February 20, 2015 Great information. Thank you, Ben. I see that I was making my mistake by using "value = " in echoing the textarea variable. Seems that value isn't used with textarea at all. Who'd've thunk it? Quote
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