Textarea value not getting posted with form

Question

I'm trying to input a textarea tag when I submit my form:

<textarea id="confirmationText" class="text" cols="86" rows ="20" name="confirmationText" form="confirmationForm"></textarea>  <form action="sendConfirmation.php" name="confirmationForm" method="post">    <input type="submit" value="Email" class="submitButton"> </form> 

As you can see I've set the form="confirmationForm" attribute in my textarea tag. I've used Live HTTP Headers to catch the POST request and it is empty (so I know the problem is not in sendConfirmation.php, the problem is that the confirmationText is not being POSTed). I've searched the net and as far as I can see I've set it correctly.

Answer 1

try to put it inside the form tag as follows... it should work

<form action="sendConfirmation.php" name="confirmationForm" method="post">     <textarea id="confirmationText" class="text" cols="86" rows ="20" name="confirmationText"></textarea>     <input type="submit" value="Email" class="submitButton"> </form> 

however you can use the same approach as well but you need to provide the from id attribute then

<form action="sendConfirmation.php" id="confirmationForm" method="post">    <input type="submit" value="Email" class="submitButton"> </form> 

Answer 2

You must put in the form attribute of the textarea the form's id, not it's name.

try:

<textarea id="confirmationText" class="text" cols="86" rows ="20" name="confirmationText" form="confirmationForm"></textarea>  <form action="sendConfirmation.php" id="confirmationForm" name="confirmationForm" method="post">    <input type="submit" value="Email" class="submitButton"> </form> 

source: http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_textarea_form.asp