text area database field

[netman182]

I have a question. i'm trying to add a carID from tblcar in my database to a textfield carid how do i do that??? any suggections???

[jpmoriarty]

<textarea name=dbinfo>
//insert your code to put the values in here. in php it would be...
<?php
$row = mysql_fetch_array($result);
echo $row['text_field'];
?>
</textarea>

[jpmoriarty]

sorry yes i misread - wasnt sure itf he wanted text box or text area.

with text area's, netman, the text that you want to appear in the box by default doesnt go into a "value" field like it does for text boxes. It goes between the <textarea> and </textarea> tags.

[netman182]

Thanks. Dave's example helped alot better. Thanks JP and DAVE :)

[jpmoriarty]

DOH!