how to put retrieved value from database into textarea

[kang jia]

hi

i retrieved value from database and now would to put these value inside a textarea. however, it seems cant put in, but the value can be retrieved from database. i don;t know where is wrong,

this the code i put in:

<td><textarea ='text' COLS='40' ROWS='6' value='<? echo $detail?>'></textarea></td>


can help me with it. thanks in advance:)

[ak1dnar]

Html Forms text areas are differ than normal elements.

[code=php]<textarea ="text" COLS="40" ROWS="6"><?php echo $detail ?></textarea>[/code]

[kang jia]

Html Forms text areas are differ than normal elements.

[code=php]<textarea ="text" COLS="40" ROWS="6"><?php echo $detail ?></textarea>[/code]

hi
thanks with it. it can work now, but how can i limit the amount of world in one row and when it hit the amount it will automatically go to next row. is it use wrap?
now i use the following code
[code=php]

<td><textarea ='text' name='detail' COLS='40' ROWS='6' wrap="virtual"> <? echo $detail?></textarea></td>

[/code]

i don;t know what is virtual , but it seems can not work , can help with it. thanks :)

[pbmods]

Heya, Kang.

Try not to use short tags (i.e., use '<?php' instead of '<?'). Future versions of PHP will *not* support short tags.

As for your question, check out wordwrap().