Re: FN-FORUM Forms Question

date posted 11th September 2000 18:08

David,

>I have a form which uses a TEXTAREA to input a message which is then
>submitted and e-mailed with PHP. The problem comes if the server-side
>e-mail check fails and the page is redisplayed.
>For all the other fields you can set a default value so that they
>redisplay with what the user typed. That option doesn't seem to exist in
>TEXTAREA and the field is wiped clean, which you can imagine is annoying
>if you've typed in a long missive!
> Is there a workaround?

You could echo the variable inside the text area with something like this:



Hope this helps,

Ray McGinty


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