Question

Hi I have been trying to pepopulate a textareafield using something
like this in the template.

{{form.content(value="please type content")}}

This works when the field is textfield primarily because the html
accepts value for <input type="text">
but the same does not work for textarea…
Can someone please help me with this?

Answer 1

For textarea widgets, you set the default content with the default argument in your field constructors.

class YourForm(Form):
    your_text_area = TextAreaField("TextArea", default="please add content")

Then when you render:

{{form.content()}}

WTForms will render the default text. I have not been able to find a way to specify default text for the text area at render time.