title: Inserting PHP variable into Html5 "Placeholder" attribute
body: <p>I tried the following, and it shows an empty text area, the value isn't displayed:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    &lt;input type="textarea" class="class1" name="name1" placeholder="&lt;?= $val1?&gt;" /&gt; 
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any thoughts on what should be done so it will work?</p>
  
  <p>Update: It is now working, the value was empty, therefore text area didn't show anything. The code can be used safely.</p>