Question

I would like to load some text retrieved from a dB into a textarea. The user clicks a link:

<a class="editlink" id="<?php echo $review['id']; ?>" href="#"><?php echo $review['title']; ?></a>

JQuery passes the ID to GO.PHP:

$(".editlink").click(function() {
    $.get("go.php", {param: $(this).attr('id')}, 
        function(data) {
            $('textarea#area1').html(data);
        });    
    return false;
});

GO.PHP retrieves the text from the dB:

$qry = mysql_query("SELECT * FROM reviews WHERE id = ".$_GET['param']." "); 
while($review = mysql_fetch_array($qry)) {
    echo $review['description'];
} 

As confirmed by Firebug consolle, ID and the text are retrieved correctly. The probelm is that I’m not able to place the text into the textarea:

<textarea id="area1" rows="30" cols="55"></textarea>

I tried: .html(data), .text(data), .val(data) but none display anything. (Please note that the text in the dB may contain HTML tags that I would like to keep).

Answer 1

You need to set the text areas value.

$("#textareaID").val("value of text area");

I put this into a blank HTML doc referenced query in the head and it worked fine.

<form>
  <textarea id="test"></textarea>
</form>
<script>
    $('#test').val('testing');
</script>