problem with text area tabspace

Hi,
I have a textarea as follows.

textarea name="message" wrap="virtual" value=""

When i use this code i see that for the first time itself the textarea is not empty and has extra tab spaces.It has value like "\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t..." .The tabs(\t) are automatically in textarea even before i enter any data.I am trying to get rid of these tabs for the first time.Can anybody help me??

Hi,
Need more info about your prob to have a better idea.
You can always trim the value anyways.
Check you onload function or any other code whether you are doing something with textarea on startup.

textarea name="message" wrap="virtual" value=""

This is not the correct way of using the textarea element. The 'value' attribute wont make a difference to the contents seen in the textarea. You create textarea as follows:

This will show the 'some text value' string as the contents of the textarea.
So, in your case, make sure you dont have any spaces/tabs between the opening <textarea> tag and the closing </textarea>

The other alternative that you have is to clear the contents of the textarea during the onload of the body. Here's an example:

Thanks everybody.I worked out for me trying to clear out the data in body onload() function.Actually i thought it is related to wrap="virtual" attribute that i have used.I figured it out that it is not related to wrap attribute.Anyways thanks a lot for your replies.