Adding to my form causes all proceeding html to go inside text field, but I need multiple lines of text</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="2019-02-01T04:37:31.297" class="fromnow">Feb 01 '19 at 04:37</time> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mr16 mb8"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Active</span> <time class="fromnow" title="2019-02-01T08:03:04.107" datetime="2019-02-01T08:03:04.107">Feb 01 '19 at 08:03</a> </div> <div class="grid--cell ws-nowrap mb8" title="Viewed 66 times"> <span class="fc-light mr2">Viewed</span> 66 times </div> </div> <div id="mainbar" role="main" aria-label="questions and answers"> <div id="question" class="question" data-questionid="54472972" data-ownerid="10927715" data-score="0"> <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="54472972"> <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="0">0</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>I created a form sign up. I replaced with to create multiple lines of text in a form field, which works, but now it breaks my site by adding all html that follows on my page INSIDE the box.</p> <p>If you reproduce the code below, you'll see that the close paragraph code is added INSIDE the text box.</p> <p>I want this to stop happening.</p> <p></p><div class="snippet" data-babel="false" data-console="true" data-hide="false" data-lang="js"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><p> <textarea id="fieldEvent" name="cm-event" placeholder="Which event are you most looking forward to?" type="text" /> </p></code></pre> </div> </div> </div> <div class="mt24 mb12"> <div class="post-taglist grid gs4 gsy fd-column"> <div class="grid ps-relative"> <a href="../../questions/tagged/forms" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'forms'" rel="tag">forms</a> <a href="../../questions/tagged/textarea" class="post-tag js-gps-track" title="show questions tagged 'textarea'" rel="tag">textarea</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 Feb 01 '19 at 04:37">asked Feb 01 '19 at 04:37</time> <a href="../../users/10927715/jess" class="s-avatar s-avatar__32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/10927715.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Jess" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/10927715/jess" class="s-user-card--link">Jess</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">1</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-54472972" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="54472972" 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-95753679" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="95753679" data-comment-owner-id="1080064" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment95753679_54472972"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Textarea isn't [self closing](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34729059/why-isnt-textarea-self-closing)</span> – <a href="../../users/1080064/tkausl" title="13,686 reputation" class="comment-user ">tkausl</a> <span class="comment-date" dir="ltr"><a class="comment-link" href="../../questions/54472972/adding-textarea-to-my-form-causes-all-proceeding-html-to-go-inside-text-field-#comment95753679_54472972"><span title="2019-02-01T04:44:17.957 License: CC BY-SA 4.0" class="relativetime-clean">Feb 01 '19 at 04:44</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">1 Answers<span style="display:none;" itemprop="answerCount">1</span></h2> </div> </div> </div> <a name="54475254"></a> <div id="answer-54475254" class="answer " data-answerid="54475254" data-ownerid="10927715" data-score="0" itemprop="suggestedAnswer" itemscope="" itemtype="https://schema.org/Answer"> <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="54475254"> <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="0">0</div> </div> </div> <div class="postcell post-layout--right"> <div class="s-prose js-post-body" itemprop="text"><p>Thank you @tkausl</p> <p>For anyone looking for the answer to the same problem, you need to close the textarea tag <em>after</em> the code but before the closing paragraph tag.</p> <p>So that it will look like this:</p> <p></p><div class="snippet" data-babel="false" data-console="true" data-hide="false" data-lang="js"> <div class="snippet-code"> <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code><p> <textarea id="fieldEvent" name="cm-event" placeholder="Which event are you most looking forward to?" type="text" /></textarea> </p></code></pre> </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="answered Feb 01 '19 at 08:03">answered Feb 01 '19 at 08:03</time> <a href="../../users/10927715/jess" class="s-avatar s-avatar32 s-user-card--avatar"> <img class="s-avatar--image" src="../../users/profiles/10927715.webp" data-jdenticon-width="32" data-jdenticon-height="32" data-jdenticon-value="Jess" /> </a> <div class="s-user-card--info"> <a href="../../users/10927715/jess" class="s-user-card--link">Jess</a> <ul class="s-user-card--awards"> <li class="s-user-card--rep" title="reputation score">1</li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="post-layout--right js-post-comments-component"> <div id="comments-54475254" class="comments js-comments-container bt bc-black-075 mt12 " data-post-id="54475254" 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-95878598" class="comment js-comment " data-comment-id="95878598" data-comment-owner-id="249218" data-comment-score="0"> <div class="js-comment-actions comment-actions"> <div class="comment-score js-comment-edit-hide"> </div> </div> <div class="comment-text js-comment-text-and-form"> <a name="comment95878598_54475254"></a> <div class="comment-body js-comment-edit-hide"> <span class="comment-copy">Ending a tag with `/` is only for self closing tags, as mentioned above. Since the `textarea` is not a self closing tag, you should remove the `/` from the opening `textarea` so that your code is: `<textarea id="fieldEvent" name="cm-event" placeholder="Which event are you most looking forward to?" type="text">` – Kyle Tolle Feb 05 '19 at 16:15