Cannot get the value of a textarea via post method [closed]

Question

It is a very simple form as in the code below:

 <form method="POST" action="news.php?nid=2">
  <textarea id="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea><br /><br />
  <input type="submit" class="button" style="float: right; cursor:pointer;" value="Comment">
 </form>

but in the news.php i cannot get the value of "txtcomment"

 echo $_POST['txtcomment'];

it returns nothing...

Answer 1

It is because you need to name the textarea:

<textarea name="txtcomment"></textarea>

The id parameter does not have anything to do with how forms work (with the exception of labels, but that is not important here).

Answer 2

Specify the name attribute of the textarea.