Text area from database

[adityadubey]

hi! Is there a way I can add text from access database to a textarea in a form of an ASP page. I am able to do it on the textfield not textarea & option box. Any idea?

What I tried was :

<textarea name="placehere" cols="50" maxlength="1800" value="<%=rs.fields("Placethis")%>"></textarea>

But this doesn't work!


Aditya

[hl]

<textarea name="placehere" cols="50" maxlength="1800"><%=rs.fields("Placethis")%></textarea>

[adityadubey]

hi harish!

I tried, it still doesn't work :(

Aditya

[iderek]

i don't know asp, but i know how htmlworks.

textfield is a self closing element (as in it doesn't have an open and close set of tags). textarea does have the pair of open/closing tags. instead of using the value attribute, you place your content between the tags -> <textarea>my content</textarea>. i do it all the time w/ php.

the only conclusion i can draw is there's got to be a typo/erro with the asp element. :/

[hl]

exactly what i said iderek... read my post :P