Laravel: textarea does not refill when using Input::old

Question

I am experiencing that only the Input Textfields respond as expected when I write the code to repopulate a form (when errors were found for example) or when from a table row I c

Answer 1

This is another way to do the same but with the Forms component from laravel:

{{ Form::textarea('content',Input::old('content'),array('id' => 'message')) }}