textarea troubles 1

[OhioSteve]

I need to display several sentences of text, allow the user to change it, and save the new value. My only tools are html and classic asp. How do I do one of these two things:

enable word wrap on an html text input
OR
put a value from a db into an html textarea

 

[Chopstik]

To put a DB value into a textarea would be like this:

<textarea name="GenNotes" cols=85 rows=4><%=rs("GenNotes")%></textarea>

There is also a property for the textarea called "wrap" and you would put a value with it (see this link). For example, using the above version, you could do like this:

<textarea name="GenNotes" wrap="virtual" cols=85 rows=4><%=rs("GenNotes")%></textarea>

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[OhioSteve]

You gave me great advice. I had expected textareas to have a value attribute. But instead, you just output the value before </textarea>. I also found that you can do a request.form on textareas if you name them.

Thanks! You get a star for your efforts.