Actually, you probably also want to escape any special characters in the comments just to be safe: <TEXTAREA style="FONT-SIZE: 13px;" name="comments" rows="7" cols="21" value="comments" type="text" maxLength="32" size="14" onchange="Form1.send.focus()"/> <?php echo htmlspecialchars($_POST['comments']); ?> </TEXTAREA> Jeff Bennett wrote: >You want to move the textarea contents text to between the <textarea> >and </textarea> tags: > ><TEXTAREA style="FONT-SIZE: 13px;" name="comments" >rows="7" cols="21" value="comments" type="text" >maxLength="32" size="14" >onchange="Form1.send.focus()"/> ><?php echo $_POST['comments']; ?> ></TEXTAREA> > >-jmb > >Chris wrote: > > > >>At the moment, the visitor inputs a load of text >>into the comments box, but if they click send and >>there's errors in other fields on the page, the >>comments box goes blank and they have to start all >>over again ;-( Trying to get it so that the >>comments box stays complete). >> >>Do I have to refer to the field or field name >>elsewhere in the code please? Getting a bit stuck >>on this ;-( >> >>Any help appreciated. >> >>Chris >> >><TEXTAREA style="FONT-SIZE: 13px;" name="comments" >>rows="7" cols="21" value="comments" type="text" >>value="<?php echo $_POST['comments']; ?>" >>maxLength="32" size="14" >>onchange="Form1.send.focus()"/> >></TEXTAREA> >> >> >> >> >>PHP Data object relational mapping generator >>http://www.metastorage.net/ >>Yahoo! Groups Links >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > >PHP Data object relational mapping generator >http://www.metastorage.net/ >Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > > > > PHP Data object relational mapping generator http://www.metastorage.net/ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/php-objects/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: php-objects-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/