title: Django, remove initial space of a template value in a textarea
body: <p>I am trying to put some text in a textarea using a template variable like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>{% if action == 'edit' %}
      &lt;form&gt;
          &lt;textarea style='width: 420px; height: 65px'&gt;
                  {{ post.text }}
          &lt;/textarea&gt;
      &lt;/form&gt;
  {% endif %}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However, I notice that the text is displayed with some initial whitespace that I can't remove. I tried creating a filter to <code>.strip()</code> the text before showing to the user but to no avail. Although the text is stripped from whitespace it does display with some space characters before the first letter.</p>
  
  <p>Is there a solution for this?</p>