[SOLVED] why can't I ech into a textarea?

[shedokan]

I'm trying to do this script:

<textarea rows="10" cols="50" value="<? echo "text"; ?>" style="border: 1px solid #666666;" name="text"></textarea>

and it doesn't works only shows an empty textarea and when I look at the source code of the page I can see value="text"

[PFMaBiSmAd]

A textarea does not have a value="..." parameter.

 

Here is a working example of a textarea - http://w3schools.com/html/showit.asp?filename=tryhtml_textarea

[Crew-Portal]

Basically Try This:

<textarea rows="10" cols="50" style="border: 1px solid #666666;" name="text"><?php echo "text"; ?></textarea>

[shedokan]

yea I kinda figured that out because it needes a tag to close itself.

thanks anyways.