Spring mvc: How to bind textarea?

[A Bhattacharya]

While submitting a form the text in the textarea doesn’t get submitted as it is not the “value” of the textarea. So how to accomplish it?

FYI this is how I tried but null gets submitted to the controller.

<spring:bind path="emailTemplateDesign.bodyText">
                                                <textarea id="bodyText" styleClass="text" style="font-size:10pt;width: 390px;height:275px;" ONCHANGE="setCursorPos()" ONCLICK="setCursorPos()"><c:out value="${emailTemplateDesign.bodyText}"/></textarea>
                                                </spring:bind>

It is surprising I don’t find a single help about this on the internet.

[Karina Guenther]

I had the same problem and eventually wound up with was:

#springBind("userLogin.notes") 
		<td>
		<textarea id="notes" name="notes" 
			style="width:100%;height:120px;" ></textarea>
		</td>

The key seemed to be id=