adding echo deletes textareas
<p>When adding my echo statements, the textarea boxes dissapear. This is the selection of code:</p>

<pre><code>&lt;?php
$rs_settings = mysql_query("select * from thesis where id='$_SESSION[user_id]'");


        ?&gt;

 &lt;br&gt;&lt;?php  while ($row_settings = mysql_fetch_array($rs_settings)) {?&gt;
  &lt;form action="thesis.php" method="post" name="regForm" id="regForm" &gt;
    &lt;div class="forms"&gt;

           Title of Proposed Thesis&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;textarea name="thesis_name" type="text" id="thesis_name" size="600"&gt;&lt;?php echo
 $row_settings['thesis_Name']; ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;

            Abstract&lt;span class="required"&gt;*&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;textarea name="abstract" type="text" id="abstract" size="600"&gt;&lt;?php echo 
$row_settings['abstract']; ?&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt; 



      &lt;?php } ?&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>Does anyone know which piece of code is cauisng this?</p>
