I am trying to display a default value in a input textbox.  When I use the

Input tage I get a box that has a size that I specify for a fixed height.

If I use the textarea tag I get a box that I can customize the size but I

get no data in this field using the exact same field selection as i did in

the Input box.  The code I am using is below.  i am not sure how to format

my output but I know i need a box that will display all the data in the

field that could be up to 1000 characters in length.  A little scrolling

would be okay but having to scroll through a field that long on a single

height box would kill the user into not wanting to update this field at all.





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<textarea name=find value=<%=objRS("directions")%>> </textarea>

<textarea name="text1"><%=objRS("directions")%></textarea>



move your value outside the <textarea> tag so that it is now in between the

opening and closing tags.



Cheers

Ken



----- Original Message -----

From: Matthew Lohr <mlohr@t...>

To: ASP Databases <asp_databases@p...>

Sent: Friday, April 21, 2000 12:26 AM

Subject: [asp_databases] displaying a dfault value in textbox?





> I am trying to display a default value in a input textbox.  When I use the

> Input tage I get a box that has a size that I specify for a fixed height.

> If I use the textarea tag I get a box that I can customize the size but I

> get no data in this field using the exact same field selection as i did in

> the Input box.  The code I am using is below.  i am not sure how to format

> my output but I know i need a box that will display all the data in the

> field that could be up to 1000 characters in length.  A little scrolling

> would be okay but having to scroll through a field that long on a single

> height box would kill the user into not wanting to update this field at

all.

>

> <textarea name=find value=<%=objRS("directions")%>> </textarea>

>