I tried the following, and it shows an empty text area, the value isn’t displayed:
<input type="textarea" class="class1" name="name1" placeholder="<?= $val1?>" />
Any thoughts on what should be done so it will work?
Update: It is now working, the value was empty, therefore text area didn’t show anything. The code can be used safely.
Make sure that
$val1actually contains a non-empty value. If it does, your code should create a non-emptyplaceholderattribute.