(Sung to to the tune of Losing My Religion by REM...)

Anyway, here's the situation: using Links 2, working with modify.cgi that includes Paul's Modify Protection & Auto Filler mod. It works fine, but on the modify page, the Description field comes up empty, though all other fields are pre-filled as they should be. What's really strange is that when I view the page source, the description is there!

<td><textarea wrap="virtual" name="Description" value="carry the desc over!" rows="3" cols="42"></textarea></td></tr>

Any idea why this would happen??


Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

If I put the description tag <%Description%> in the modify form, without being in a textarea, it displays the correct value. If I view the link from the Admin screens, the description is there, too. But not in the modify form, and if left empty and submitted, the field is then written as empty in the db. Too strange!



Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

You need to be doing something like this:

<textarea wrap="virtual" name="Description" rows="3" cols="42"><%Description%></textarea>

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Magelln

It has the stock code except for the addition of the <%Description%> tag:

<tr><td align="right" valign="top">Description:</td>
<td><textarea wrap="virtual" name="Description" value="<%Description%>" rows="3" cols="42"></text-area></td></tr>


Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

What Dan said is right.

Seems like you are just making a small mistake in HTML.

For textarea You should use the code as below


Feel free to use any style, or other information along with textarea, however just as Dan said, make sure to place <%description%> in right place.

Here is updated code for you.


See I have updated the Value option & moved description tag where it should be?

Hope this helps.

Vishal
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Try:


Notice in your example, you were closing the <textarea> with </text-area> The content of the textarea also needs to be between the tag (not in the value="" area).

Cheers

Andy (mod)
andy@ultranerds.co.uk

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Boy, that code-blindness is gettin' bad!

On a good note, the Image Upload mod is working well, and fully integrated into the admin. Now just need to make it a multi-file upload...

Thanks!


Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie

The other point about...



That's the way it's set up in the template, but the dash is removed for the actual page, because having a </textarea> tag inside a textarea closes the textarea. Went through that problem while making the External Text File mod...


Leonard
aka PerlFlunkie