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

textarea does not have a value attribute. Values in textarea should be inside <textarea></textarea>, so in your case:

<textarea id="message" name = "content" rows="10" cols="50" onKeyPress class="form-control">
{{{ Input::old('content') }}}
</textarea>

Answer 2

Just figured it out, put the old value in between the brackets as below

<textarea name="message">{{ old('message') }}</textarea>

Answer 3

Sorry for late reply

{{Form::textarea('mobile_message', isset($notifications -> mobile_message) ? $notifications -> mobile_message : null, 'id'=> 'mob_id','class' => 'form-control'))}}

Answer 4

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

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

Answer 5

I'd like to add one thing, if you use Form Class for the form and elements then you don't need to explicitly right the Input::old('element-name') to retrieve the value of the previous form submission.
Just use
{{ Form::text('name', null, array('id'=>'name', 'class' => 'class-to-apply')) }}
And you're good to go.

Here, null value for the text field will be null for the first time, and if you redirect back this page with input then this will automatically grab the value.