Textarea value? - text

Question

When I use a text-input type , i can just give it a value and use that, even on another page
example:
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" value="<?php echo $row['name'];?>">
Can I do the same with a textarea?
example :
<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" cols="123" name="comments" value="<?php echo $row['comments'];?>" ></textarea>
This is my code in where I retrieve an existing row of information from a given ID. The info consists of a name, emailaddress and comments :
<form method="post">
<div class="row gy-2 text-left">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-auto gy-2">
<label>Name</label> <br>
<input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" value="<?php echo $row['naam'];?>">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-auto gy-2">
<label>Email address</label><br>
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" value="<?php echo $row['email'];?>">
</div>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-auto gy-2">
<label>Tell me about it</label><br>
<style>
textarea {resize: none;}
</style>
<textarea class="form-control" rows="3" cols="123" name="comments" value="<?php echo $row['comments'];?>" ></textarea>
</div>
<div class="row">
<div class="col-auto gy-3">
<button class="btn edit btn-info border border-dark" name="Update">Update</button>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</form>

Answer 1

For the textarea element, it goes between <textarea> and </textarea> tags:
<textarea><?php echo $row['comments'];?></textarea>
The <textarea> element does not use an HTML attribute named value like the <input> element does.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/textarea#attributes
However, when the HTML markup which contains a textarea element is parsed by the browser, an HTMLTextAreaElement object is created. This DOM element object, which represents the state of the textarea element on the web page does have a JavaScript object property named .value, which gives access via JavaScript to the text which the textarea element contains.
This JavaScript code logs the text that is contained in a textarea element:
console.info(document.querySelector('textarea').value);
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLTextAreaElement