title: Why is textarea filled with mysterious white spaces?
body: <p>I have a simple <a href="http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/tag_textarea.asp" rel="noreferrer">text area</a> in a form like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea style="width:350px; height:80px;" cols="42" rows="5" name="sitelink"&gt;
      &lt;?php if($siteLink_val) echo $siteLink_val; ?&gt; 
  &lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I keep getting extra white space in this <strong>textarea</strong>. When I tab into it my cursor is like in the middle of the <strong>textarea</strong> and not in the beginning? What is the explanation?</p>