Value attribute in textarea 3 boot file

Question

I have a text box that I use as a form on a website.

I usually use the text "placeholder" inside, but I need this information for editing.

What I did before was just passing the information from my database to the form's “value” attribute. Then the form just appears with my data ready for editing.

For some reason, although it doesn’t work with my text box!

Here is my code:

<textarea value='<?php echo $info?>' class="form-control" id="message" name="message" rows="5"></textarea> 

I know this is not data, because iv repeated it elsewhere and in order. I also tried

 <textarea value='hi' class="form-control" id="message" name="message" rows="5"></textarea> 

nothing is displayed.

What's happening? I have been doing this all the time. Im using bootstrap 3, can this have something to do with this?

Answer 1

Tag

<textarea> has no value attribute http://www.w3schools.com/tags/tag_textarea.asp Content should be placed between opening and closing tags

 <textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message" rows="5">hi</textarea> 

Answer 2

To put some text in a text box, you should write something like

 <textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message" rows="5">hi</textarea> 

or

 <textarea class="form-control" id="message" name="message" rows="5"> <?php echo $info ?> </textarea> 

Answer 3

the text area does not matter, place the text between the opening and closing tags, for example

 <textarea name="myText"> this is text area </textarea> 

Answer 4

Thank you very much, this solution helped a lot.