Question

I’m importing data from youtube into a textarea using Javascript.

If you I simply place my Javascript code onto a blank area it displays the information fine, but for some reason it doesn’t allow me to paste a same code into a textarea.

Here is my code:

<textarea rows="10" id="bandsvideodescription" name="bandsvideodescription">
<script type="text/javascript">
  function youtubeFeedCallback( data )
  {
    document.writeln( '' + data.entry[ "media$group" ][ "media$description" ].$t.replace( /\n/g, '' ) + '' );
  }
</script>
</textarea>

Any help would be great,

Thanks.

Answer 1

Textareas are defined as:

<!ELEMENT TEXTAREA - - (#PCDATA)       -- multi-line text field -->

They can only contain PCDATA, which means no elements (including <script> elements).

Move the script to after the control, then get a reference to it (e.g. with document.getElementById) and set its value property instead of trying to write it out as the document loads.