Cannot get the value of a textarea via post method [closed]
It is a very simple form as in the code below: <form method="POST" action="news.php?nid=2"> <textarea id="txtcomment" style="width:100%; height: 70px;" maxlength="300"></textarea><br /><br /> <input type="submit" class="button" style="float: right; cursor:pointer;" value="Comment"> </form> but in the news.php i cannot get the value of "txtcomment" echo $_POST['txtcomment']; it returns nothing... It is because you need to name the textarea: <textarea name="txtcomment"></textarea> The id parameter does not have anything to do with how forms work (with the exception of label s, but that is not