title: Initial value to textarea field in form tld
body: <p>I am using spring mvc and in my jsp page I have a form with textarea.</p>
  
  <p>I want the textarea to be pre filled with some text (it is an edit feature for article).</p>
  
  <p>I tried the following.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form:textarea id="description" path="article.description" value="${article.description}" onKeyUp="validationmethod($(this));" onKeyDown="validationmethod($(this));" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But my textarea is still empty..</p>
  
  <p>the <code>value=""</code> attribute works perfectly fine for <code>&lt;form:input&gt;</code> but not for text area.</p>
  
  <p>if i try to put it betweeen the tag then i get the warning "Form:textarea must not be empty".</p>
  
  <p>Please help.</p>