Question

I am having trouble validating this form in HTML5. I am down to my final error, and am coming up with nothing!!! Hope someone can help!

The section of the form that is causing the error

<textarea name="content" value="<?=$content;?>" class="rounded" <?php echo $_POST['content'] ? $_POST['content'] : "" ?> required="required"></textarea>

This is the error that the W3C Validator is pulling up!

Error Line 177, Column 78: Attribute value not allowed on element textarea at this point.

…xtarea name="content" value="" class="rounded" required="required"></textarea>

The error is on the closing > after the required=”required”

Again hopefully someone can help!! 🙂

– ANSWER FOUND –

OK! for anyone who may need the answer to the above question…

The textarea should read, to pass W3C validation

<textarea name="content" class="rounded" <?php echo $_POST['content'] ? $_POST['content'] : "" ?> required="required"><?=$content;?></textarea>

This will still allow the form to stay populated after submit..

Answer 1

There is no value attribute for <textarea>. Put your content inside the <textarea> container.

Sample:

<textarea name="content">
    Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consetetur sadipscing elitr, sed diam nonumy eirmod
    tempor invidunt ut labore et dolore magna aliquyam.
</textarea>

References:

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element/textarea