textarea output

chet has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Perl newbie here,

How do output a line or multiple lines to the textarea box? Here is the form code.

use CGI qw(:standard);
print header; 
print start_html(-title=>"Spellchecker", 
                -BGCOLOR=>"black");
print hr;
print start_form; 
print p(submit("Check Spelling"), 
               textfield("hold")); 
print textarea(-name=>'foo', 
               -rows=>10, 
               -columns=>36);
print end_form;
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Thank You
-chet

Edit kudra, 2002-05-03 Added P and CODE tags

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Re: textarea output by cjf (Parson) on Apr 24, 2002 at 19:01 UTC
Take a look at populating a textarea You may also want to check out some alternatives to CGI.pm for generating HTML documents such as HTML::Template. Then again, you may not :).	[reply]
Re: textarea output by Cyrnus (Monk) on Apr 25, 2002 at 06:53 UTC
You can use param() to change or set the value of a form field. Here is an example: `#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w use CGI qw(:standard); param("foo","You can\nMake it multiline\noutput too"); print header; print start_html(-title=>"Spellchecker", -BGCOLOR=>"black"); print hr; print start_form; print p(submit("Check Spelling"), textfield("hold")); print textarea(-name=>'foo', -rows=>10, -columns=>36); print end_form;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]