TextArea Unable to Redisplay data after Validation 2

[teblack]

I have a form that has a couple of textarea boxes on it. Once the user enters their information and presses the continue button the asp page goes through a validation routine. If errors are found then the data entry page is re-displayed with all of the data re-filled back into the form. The problem is the textareas are not re-populating. I can issues a response.write and the fields have the data in them, but I can not see it once the form re-displays.

Any help. Thanks in advance for any help.

TBlack -

 

[tsdragon]

How are you refilling the textarea? I believe for textarea you have to put it's contents between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[manarth]

As Tracy says:

  <textarea name="blah">[COLOR=red]<%response.write(variable);%>[/color]</textarea>

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[tsdragon]

Except: no semicolon

(mixed up your vbs and javascript?)


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[teblack]

Both textarea boxes are defined the same.....

<textarea NAME="termreason" rows=4 cols=25 onkeyup="if (this.value.length > 100) this.value=this.value.substr(0,100);" value="<%=termreason%>"></textarea></td>

Thanks..

TBlack -

 

[manarth]

Doh!

It's such an ingrained habit...I don't do much vbs - can you tell?!
(And when I do do vbs, I have to spend *a lot* of time debugging syntax errors)

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[trollacious]

As manarth said, textareas don't have a value attribute. Use his example of how to set up a textarea and it should work for you.

Lee

 

[tsdragon]

manarth: Don't think you're the only one? How do you think I knew what the problem was?

To make matters worse, I also do a lot of VB, which is just different enough from VBS (i.e VBS does not have an iif statement) that it confuses the heck out of me at times.


Tracy Dryden

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[teblack]

Thanks to all, that fixed the problem. I removed the value clause and placed my element name with the textarea tags.

   			<textarea NAME="termreason" rows=4 cols=25 onkeyup="if (this.value.length > 100) this.value=this.value.substr(0,100);"><%=termreason%></textarea></td>

Thanks again for the help with this.



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