title: how to get old value from the textbox in laravel
body: <pre><code>&lt;textarea class="form-control" rows="12" id="body" name="body" {{Request::old('body')}}&gt;
  &lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>In the above code while creating a post and if there are some validation errors the post will reload with the old data submitted by the user but i am getting the blank textarea.</p>