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Asked: 2026-05-12T19:23:26+00:00

Is there a way to embed a textarea block inside of another textarea block

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Is there a way to embed a textarea block inside of another textarea block but not render the inside textarea and preserve the outside textarea? I cannot modify the inside textarea. Perhaps there is something better to use for the outside block than a textarea. I need something that will submit its contents at POST. Converting the inside angle brackets to entities is not an option since I want to preserve the html inside the outer textarea.

Non-working Sample Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test Embedded textareas</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form method="POST">
        <textarea>
            Outside Textarea
            <textarea>Inside Textarea</textarea>
        </textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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  1. Editorial Team

    Yo dawg.

    Seriously, encoding the html is the only option. You can always decode it/do whatever in your server-side code once it gets posted.

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Test Embedded textareas</title>
</head>
<body>
    <form method="POST">
        <textarea>
            Outside Textarea
            &lt;textarea&gt;Inside Textarea&lt;/textarea&gt;
        </textarea>
        <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
</body>
</html>
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