title: Outputting to textarea from database
body: <p>I'm trying to out put a database field value into a text area by doing this but it's not working.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea name="course_id" cols=40 rows=3 value="&lt;?php echo $row['course_id'] ; ?&gt;"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but when i use </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;input type="text" name="course_id" value="&lt;?php echo $row['course_id'] ; ?&gt; "&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>it worked well.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>