TextArea Highlight & delete problem

[science]

It seems there is a difference between

1)highlighting text in a textarea then deleting it and

2)pressing the delete button multiple times.

When I delete using method 2. And send the contents of the textarea to a java method that takes a string(ie the textarea string) and updates its local string variable. The local string variable is unchanged. It appears deleting using method 2 does not send an empty string??

Please help

[AricC]

I'm not really clear what you mean???? Post an example.

[science]

I have a java class that has a Sting variable called formData.

I have a method in this class called setFormData. this method takes a string eg n as input -setFormData(n string). It then updates the the formData variable with string n.

eg setFormData(string n){
formData =n
}


I send textarea content to the above method eg:
setFormData(textarea content)
This is suppose to update formData variable. However if I delete all text in my textarea using highlight and delete. The formData variable does not update to reflect.

If I delete all text in the textarea by pressing delete for each charecter. formData is updated to an empty string.