I'm playing with this now. Here's what I have:

    <textarea cols="45" rows="3" name="event"></textarea>
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This becomes:

    [% USE CGI %]
    <textarea cols="45" rows="3" name="event">[% CGI.param('event') %]
+</textarea>
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It performs as advertised, but doesn't escape any of the HTML characters, so typing </textarea> in the textarea will break it. It appears that the HTML plugin can fix this, but I don't have that installed (yet).

I'm going to have to give this some thought. It's a quick and easy way to make some things sticky, but I don't see how it would work with a select group, for example. I'll second your request to have masem expand on this :)

Update: Hmm... I see what masem is doing, but that kind of defeats part of what I need: a simple, easily maintainable template that our designers can go into a work on. Interesting, though.

Cheers,
Ovid

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It performs as advertised, but doesn't escape any of the HTML characters, so typing </textarea> in the textarea will break it. It appears that the HTML plugin can fix this, but I don't have that installed (yet).

Looks like TT2 do need "escaping expressions" feature that exists in HTML::Mason for so long: you can add one or several escape flags at the end of expression to be expanded. <% $text_that_should_be_escaped |h%> will do exactly what you want - escape all special HTML-entities. Morover, you can customize default escape flags to avoid writing them everywhere or to change behaviour of existing components.

-- brother ab