How to add default value for html from json passed from server in Pug?</a></h1> </div> <div class="grid fw-wrap pb8 mb16 bb bc-black-075"> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8" title="2016-01-12 19:07:53Z"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Asked</span> <time itemprop="dateCreated" datetime="2017-06-11T18:49:45.137" class="fromnow">Jun 11 '17 at 18:49</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2017-06-11T18:49:45.137" datetime="2017-06-11T18:49:45.137">Jun 11 '17 at 18:49</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 485 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 485 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="44487505" data-ownerid="3375847" data-score="1"> <div class="post-layout"> <div class="votecell post-layout--left"> <div class="js-voting-container grid jc-center fd-column ai-stretch gs4 fc-black-200" data-post-id="44487505"> <button class="js-vote-up-btn grid--cell s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer"><svg aria-hidden="true" class="m0 svg-icon iconArrowUpLg" width="36" height="36" viewBox="0 0 36 36"><path d="M2 26h32L18 10 2 26z"></path></svg></button> <div class="js-vote-count grid--cell fc-black-500 fs-title grid fd-column ai-center" itemprop="upvoteCount" data-value="1">1</div> <button class="js-bookmark-btn s-btn s-btnunset c-pointer py4"> <svg aria-hidden="true" class="svg-icon iconBookmark" width="18" height="18" viewBox="0 0 18 18"><path d="M6 1a2 2 0 00-2 2v14l5-4 5 4V3a2 2 0 00-2-2H6zm3.9 3.83h2.9l-2.35 1.7.9 2.77L9 7.59l-2.35 1.7.9-2.76-2.35-1.7h2.9L9 2.06l.9 2.77z"></path></svg> <div class="js-bookmark-count mt4" data-value=""></div> </button> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>Not a duplicate of <a href="../../questions/6007219/how-to-add-default-value-for-html-textarea">How to add default value for html <textarea>?</a> but very similar, I just want to do that in Pug.</p> <p>I want to set a default value for my html <code><textarea></code> that is populated from data passed by to me by my router in Node.js.</p> <p>I've tried<br/> <code>textarea {JSON.parse(fromServer.myJson).author}</code><br/> <code>textarea {{JSON.parse(fromServer.myJson).author}}</code><br/> <code>textarea JSON.parse(fromServer.myJson).author</code></p> <p>All I get are text areas populated with my code instead of the values that I'm passing in that code.</p> <p><code>fromServer.myJson</code> is a really hacked together piece of data, it's a String that was json inside the json object <code>fromServer</code> that's being passed from MySQL. I face the same problem if I use <code>fromSever.title</code> which is a more sane object.</p></div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/javascript" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'javascript'" rel="tag">javascript</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/json" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'json'" rel="tag">json</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/node.js" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'node.js'" rel="tag">node.js</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/pug" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'pug'" rel="tag">pug</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mb0"> <div class="mt16 grid gs8 gsy fw-wrap jc-end ai-start pt4 mb16"> <div class="grid--cell mr16 fl1 w96"></div> <div class="post-signature owner grid--cell"> <div class="s-user-card s-user-card"> <time class="s-user-card--time" datetime="asked Jun 11 '17 at 18:49">asked Jun 11 '17 at 18:49</time> <a href="../../users/3375847/glen-pierce" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/3375847.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Glen Pierce" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/3375847/glen-pierce" class="s-user-card--link">Glen Pierce</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">4,401</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blinggold" title="5 gold badges">5</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingsilver" title="31 silver badges">31</li> <li class="s-award-bling s-award-blingbronze" title="50 bronze badges">50</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-44487505" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="44487505" data-min-length="15"> <ul class="comments-list js-comments-list" data-remaining-comments-count="0" data-canpost="false" data-cansee="true" data-comments-unavailable="false" data-addlink-disabled="true"> <li id="comment-75984355" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="75984355" data-comment-owner-id="707111" data-comment-score="1"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> <span title="number of 'useful comment' votes received" class="warm">1</span> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment75984355_44487505"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">`textarea #{JSON.parse(fromServer.myJson).author}`</span> – <a href="../../users/707111/ry" title="218,210 reputation" class="comment-user ">Ry-</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/44487505/how-to-add-default-value-for-html-textarea-from-json-passed-from-server-in-pug#comment75984355_44487505"><span title="2017-06-12T09:12:01.457 License: CC BY-SA 3.0" class="relativetime-clean">Jun 12 '17 at 09:12</span></a></span> </div> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div id="answers"> <a name="tab-top"></a> <div id="answers-header"> <div class="answers-subheader grid ai-center mb8"> <div class="grid--cell fl1"> <h2 class="mb0" data-answercount="9">0 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">0</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <script src="../../static/js/stack-icons.js"></script> <script src="../../static/js/fromnow.js"></script> </body> </html>