How to add default value for html <textarea>?

Question

I want to set a default value for my html `<textarea>`. I read from a material that to add default value you have to do something like `<textarea>This is default text</textarea>`. I did that but it doesn't work. What's the right thing to do?

Answer 1

Your comment broke the website, but it's a good example of the code working. The content is between the opening and closing textarea tags, and is now an editable textarea for other users.

Putting text between opening and closing textarea tags worked for me, and it worked for your comment above. Can you share more of your code?

To anyone seeing the results from the comment above, remember to sanitize your inputs! If you're using PHP, this is a great tool for sanitizing HTML input: http://htmlpurifier.org/