Textarea question regarding pre-populating.

[Mike Burdick]

Hi,

How does one pre-populate a textarea.

Thanks...

[CrazyMerlin]

it all depends on where the data you want to populate is from

[Beedge]

<form action="" method="get">
<textarea name="" cols="" rows="">Default text</textarea>
</form>

[Mike Burdick]

Well... I have a text string generated from a perl script and I was wondering if there is a better technique then this? Remember this is in a perl script, dynamically creating a web page javascript function, hence the $note_string variable. This function is requested with onLoad to fill the textarea when the page is loaded.


function fillTextArea(){
var object=document.getElementById("notes1");
object.value="$note_string";
}