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

I use HTML::form in an attempt to create a form object which I intend to populate and submit via LWP. How do I access "textarea" s wthin a form? Simple inputs can be accessed via something like $form->value($name,$value); however if I try this with a textarea I get a "no such input" error. Can anyone shine some light on this for me? Any help is appreciated.

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Re: accessing a textarea via HTML::Form
by Beatnik (Parson) on Mar 31, 2001 at 17:35 UTC
    try 
    $form->push_input("textarea",{"name"=>"texta","value"=>"test"});  
$input = $form->find_input("texta","textarea");
print $input->name();
print $input->value();

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    or
    $form->push_input("textarea",{"name"=>"texta"});  
$input = $form->find_input("texta","textarea");
$input->value("test");
print $input->name();
print $input->value();

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    Beatnik
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