Cannot get the value of a textarea via post method

Question

It is a very simple form as in the code below:

 <form method="POST" action="news.php?nid=2">
  <textarea id="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea><br /><br />
  <input type="submit" class="button" style="float: right; cursor:pointer;" value="Comment">
 </form>

but in the news.php i cannot get the value of "txtcomment"

 echo $_POST['txtcomment'];

it returns nothing...

Answer 1

It is because you need to name the textarea:

<textarea name="txtcomment"></textarea>

The id parameter does not have anything to do with how forms work (with the exception of labels, but that is not important here).

Answer 2

Specify the name attribute of the textarea.

Answer 3

Add name attribute in textarea

<textarea id="txtcomment" name="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea>

Answer 4

you need to have an attribute name with txtcomment in it, you have an attribute 'id'

Answer 5

You have to define a name attribute (the id attribute is possible but not necessary).

<textarea name="txtcomment" ...>

Answer 6

textarea name must be txtcomment not id like

<form method="POST" action="news.php?nid=2">
<textarea id="txtcomment" name="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea><br /><br />
<input type="submit" class="button" style="float: right; cursor:pointer;" value="Comment">
</form>

Answer 7

It's not id="" that names the field in your array, it's name="".

<textarea name="txtcomment" id="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea><br /><br />