textarea adds unwanted spaces

[watusiboy]

<TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="10" COLS="50">
        <?php  echo $comments; ?>
</TEXTAREA>
 
this is a very simple question. the textarea above automatically adds three tab spaces at the beginning. as a result, when i try to check it using javascript: 
 
 if(theform.comments.value == "")
     {
           //some code here
     }
 

it never becomes null even if no input has been made. i know this is a very simple question but i can't really figure out what's wrong.

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[dlite922]

try this:
[PHP]
<TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="10" COLS="50"><?php echo $comments; ?></TEXTAREA>
[/PHP]

no spaces between <textarea></textarea>

[watusiboy]

try this:
[PHP]
<TEXTAREA NAME="comments" ROWS="10" COLS="50"><?php echo $comments; ?></TEXTAREA>
[/PHP]

no spaces between <textarea></textarea>

hi, i figured this out too a while a go. it turned out the i coded the ff:
<texarea>
<?php echo $comments; ?>
</textarea>

so, that explained the spaces. thanks for the reply