how to get old value from the textbox in laravel

Question

<textarea class="form-control" rows="12" id="body" name="body" {{Request::old('body')}}>
</textarea>

In the above code while creating a post and if there are some validation errors the post will reload with the old data submitted by the user but i am getting the blank textarea.

Answer 1

Put it in between:

<textarea class="form-control" rows="12" id="body" name="body" >{{Request::old('body')}} </textarea>

Answer 2

I think you can try this :

{!! Form::textarea('body',old("description"),['class' => 'form-control','placeholder' => 'body']) !!}

OR

<textarea class="form-control" rows="12" id="body" name="body" >{{Input::old('body')}} </textarea>

Hope this work for you !!!