Textarea objects instead of text boxes in datagrids

[J. Muenchbourg]

How do I specify inside a datagrid that does edits/updates, that a
certain field should display its contents in TEXTAREA html objects, not
text box controls. See tag in boundcolumn/datagrid control:

<asp:BoundColum n
DataField="samp leletext"
HeaderText="Sam ple Text">
</asp:BoundColumn >

...and if I can put a textarea object in a datagrid, will I use the
..text method to parse the data from that field name when calling my sql
parameters and such:

MyCommand.Param eters.Add(New SQLParameter("@ sampletext",
sampletext.text ))

...when I tried using this reference to display "sampletext " inside a
textarea:

Dim sampletext As textarea = E.Item.cells(5) .Controls(0)

...i got a "Type 'textarea' is not defined" error.

thanks for help
Muench
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