Printing the contents of a textarea

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

In my Admintest.pl, I have several textarea controls within the script that are assigned a value but the value never prints out within the textarea. I know there is a value in the textarea (from database). Here is one of the print statements in my script...

print "<td><textarea NAME=\"reh_dinner_site_addins_lang\" value=\"@row
+[50]\" ROWS=\"4\" COLS=\"46\"></textarea></td>";
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Is there some sort of formatting I must do before I put the value into the textarea? Thanks for everyone's help in advance...

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Re: Printing the contents of a textarea by moot (Chaplain) on Mar 10, 2005 at 16:35 UTC
Did you perhaps mean: `... value=\"$row[50]\" ...` [download] Also, textareas don't have values. Enclose the data within the textarea tags: `<textarea>$row[50]</textarea>` [download] (surrounding attributes removed for clarity).	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Printing the contents of a textarea by Joost (Canon) on Mar 10, 2005 at 16:36 UTC
The textarea tag doesn't have a value attribute `print "<textarea>".CGI::escapeHTML($value)."</textarea>";` [download] "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Printing the contents of a textarea by jZed (Prior) on Mar 10, 2005 at 16:54 UTC
`print "<td><textarea NAME=\"reh_dinner_site_addins_lang\" value=\"@row +[50]\" ROWS=\"4\" COLS=\"46\"></textarea></td>";` [download] Please do yourself a favor and never use backslashes to escape double quotes in HTML, it's impossible to read. Use here-docs or plain qq{} and q{}, for example: `print qq{ <td> <textarea NAME="reh_dinner_site_addins_lang" ROWS="4" COLS="46" >$row[50]</textarea> </td> };` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Printing the contents of a textarea by Anonymous Monk on Mar 10, 2005 at 17:08 UTC
It is working.... Thanks guys, your are the best!	[reply]