HTML textarea makes submit button disappear

Thursday, May 08, 2008

As we all know HTML is kind of goofy. Why do I use it? Because of a little someone I like to call the world wide web consortium, ever heard of em?

I ran into this error while creating web application project management site for my own selfish reasons.

It seams if you use an HTML text area like so:

>textarea name="content" rows="17" cols="47" wrap="soft" >

your submit button will up and disappear. If you add a closing tag like:

>/textarea>

If you thought you could save like 10 characters of code and just add a / to the begin tag, well guess again. It didn't work for me in Safari. It might work for you. Do it at your own risk.

Labels: Technology