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<textarea> tag does it have a value attribute

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WebProgrammerGoddess

WebProgrammerGoddess

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Feb 9, 2001
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I trying to have the <textarea> to be already popluate with text that the user can edit if they want. Is there anyway I can do that? I tried value=&quot;variablename&quot; but that didn't work. The variable name holds the text I want to display.
Thanks in advanced.
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<textarea name=&quot;textfield&quot;>blahblahblah
</textarea>

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You could probably do it with javascript.

In the heading give the variable a value:
<head>
<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
varname=&quot;value&quot;
</script>
</head>

And then in the html, put something similar to this where you want the textarea to display:
<script language=&quot;JavaScript&quot;>
document.write(&quot;<textarea>&quot;)
document.write(varname)
document.write(&quot;</textarea>&quot;)
</script>

I'm sure there's probably an easier way to do it, but maybe this will get you on the right track...
 
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