Textarea Causes an Error on Page

liranwilliams · April 2016

I am trying to create an html form and publish it in bethemes.

Everything seemed to work fine until I added a text area

Example code:

</textarea>

Then once I saved this code, the content in the editor (in wordpress) disappeared. I now can't view the content in wordpress editor.

The form and textarea is however shown ok in the webpage (on the front-end).

Is there another way of using textarea? or any solutions

And yes I must use an html webform, because I have hidden fields and post data, etc.

Albert · April 2016

Hi,

html can be used inside Column items only. So please html inside this item and all would be fine.

liranwilliams · April 2016

I am using a column.

The issue is that the content in a column item is written within a textarea, and therefore, there is a textarea within a textarea.

I am surprised that this hasn't been encountered before.

Any other ideas?

Albert · April 2016

Ohh, ok. You're right. We missed that one. However, we do not have any other idea to use a textarea inside textarea.

liranwilliams · April 2016

My solution was to put the form in a new page and integrate it using an iframe:

1. Create a new page (with a 'Blank Page' Theme)

2. enter my form code in the Wordpress editor

3. Then I used an iframe.

Don't forget to change the form target to '_top'

example: <form action="" method="POST" target="_top">

Albert · April 2016

Thanks for your explanation! We appreciate it

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