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How to add default value for html textarea?

Here is my jsFiddle example. this works fine:

<textarea name='awesome'>Default value</textarea>

Textarea default value

Textarea default text must be enclosed in tags

<textarea> this is my default text </textarea>

Default Value TextArea Mysterious Spaces

You have indentations in the html. ANYTHING that appears between the opening/closing <textarea> tags becomes PART of the text area:

<div class="col-sm-12">
    <textarea name="description" class="form-control" rows="5" placeholder="Desciption">
                                                                                        ^
        {{$description}}
^^^^^^^^                ^
    </textarea>
^^^^
</div>

The ^ mark the spaces you're getting. If you don't want those spaces, then don't have them:

<textarea>foo</textarea>

v.s.

<textarea>
          ^--line break at start of textarea content
    foo
^^^^----spaces
       ^--another line break
</textarea>

Default value for textarea

Look at ASP.NET MVC - How can I set the Default Value in a Strongly Typed TextArea?

Insert a default value in textarea, upon creation

You can use the emptyText property which acts like placeholder text. I would use that in conjunction with value to achieve your desired results.

textarea can't have a default value

There is no value attribute

<textarea class="wideInput" cols="30" rows="10" ><?php echo $row['foodDescription']; ?></textarea>

How can I display the value of my textarea?

Textarea doesn't have value attribute. Put the text between opening and closing tags.

note : Don't forgot to add name attribute .

It should be like this

<textarea name="textarea_field" placeholder="Text enter here">This text is visible</textarea>

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