Topic: Textarea problem

[geroid]

Hi
I retrieve a record from a table and display it in a html textarea. The problem is that it is not displaying the text correctly. When it appears in the textarea it looks like this:

      Author Gabriel Rosenstock will be in
Byrne’s World of
Wonder in the Fairgreen Shopping Centre
reading for primary
school children.

As you can see, the text is tabbed at the beginning and sentences are forced onto the next line. I want the whole thing to display as normal text would (without this tab and line break). The text area code looks like this
<textarea cols="40" rows="12" wrap="hard" name="contentirish">
      </textarea>

Any ideas

[backie]

Instead of having wrap="hard" use wrap="off" and try and have the closing tag right next to the open as any space results in content to the textarea.

[runnerjp]

try doing it like this

<textarea cols="40" rows="12" wrap="hard" name="contentirish"></textarea>

i hd this problem where there was a space within the textarea code and it just added it to the text

[geroid]

Thanks backie
That worked perfectly

[geroid]

Thanks to everyone for replies. It was simple that space problem between the textarea tags. Sorted now