[SOLVED] textarea already has characters

[alex3]

Hi,

 

I'm trying to get this form working perfectly, but whenever the page is loaded, the textarea field already has 'invisible characters' in it. Clicking in the field, and you'll see the blinking cursor isn't at the beginning of it.

 

This occurs on IE7 and 8, Chrome and Safari and Firefox 3 on OS X. Those are what I've tested the site on anyway!

 

Cheers

[xtopolis]

I didn't test it... but if you remove the whitespace, does it fix it?

			<li>
			<label for="message">Message</label><br>
			<textarea name="message" id="message">
							</textarea>

						</li>

--> to

			<li>
			<label for="message">Message</label><br>
			<textarea name="message" id="message"></textarea>
		</li>

[alex3]

Ah, of course it does!

 

In my code I had

 

<textarea name="message" id="message">
<? somephp ?>
</textarea>

 

So of course once the PHP had been parsed, a big gap was left. Put it all in one line; no more problem.

 

Gah, such a silly little oversight. Thanks a lot for pointing it out