Textarea problem in form: values not recognised

[Martien van Wanrooij]

In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
standard text in the text area, so
<textarea name = "reaction">Please give your reaction here</textarea>
the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
<textarea name = "reaction"></textarea>
however, worked properly.
I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar script
for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
Any ideas?

Thanks on beforehand, Martien van Wanrooij

[Johan Holst Nielsen]

Martien van Wanrooij wrote:

In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
standard text in the text area, so
<textarea name = "reaction">Please give your reaction here</textarea>
the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
<textarea name = "reaction"></textarea>
however, worked properly.
I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar script
for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
Any ideas?

Can you please try to send us an link to the whole source? Maybe with an
working example with an phpinfo(); on the page that you submit to?

Regards,
Johan

[Nico]

Is it useful to mention the following:

$reaction = $_POST["reaction"];

..Nico

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In a php form that should be send by email, I have been puzzling the whole
night long about the fact that the content of a textarea was not passed
through the email message. Curiously enought it worked when I omitted the
standard text in the text area, so
<textarea name = "reaction">Please give your reaction here</textarea>
the value $reaction in my mailform script remained empty.
<textarea name = "reaction"></textarea>
however, worked properly.
I detected this by coincidence because I had written almost a similar script for another site but without default values in the text area. I couldn't
find any explanation for this behaviour on the web.
Any ideas?

Thanks on beforehand, Martien van Wanrooij