Groovlet quick tip: textarea()

April 13, 2009 | 0 Minute Read
This post was originally posted on my old blog.

Using textarea with Markup Builder in a Groovlet can be tricky.

My initial attempt was:

div()
{
	textarea(name: "content", rows: "3", cols: "60")
}

This however results in invalid html:

<div>
    <textarea name='content' rows='3' cols='60' />
</div>

The correct way is to include an empty string (content of the textarea) in the constructor:

div()
{
	textarea(name: "content", rows: "3", cols: "60", "")
}

Which yields correct html:

<div>
    <textarea name='content' rows='3' cols='60'></textarea>
</div>

I hope this helps, since Groovlet documentation is quite sparse.

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