Working with forms in PHP - Textareas

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Well, guess what? Textareas are handled in the exact same way as these other elements are. So, let's just dive right in. In form.html:

<TEXTAREA name="mytextarea" rows="4" cols="30"></TEXTAREA><BR>

and in form.php:

echo "<BR>In the textarea, you typed: " . $_POST['mytextarea'] . "\n";

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