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How can I put an initial value in a TEXTAREA?

Question:
How can I put an initial value in a TEXTAREA? works just fine, but it doesn’t seem to work with textareas.

Answer:
You say that you did try using the TEXTAREA tag, yet your example had inINPUT tag. Try using this:

Where NAME is the name of the field, ROWS defines how many rows of thetextarea should be visible, COLS defines how many characters wide the fieldshould be.

This should help!

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