Why isn't my textarea's placeholder showing up?

Question

I am using placeholders for all my form elements and it\'s showing up in them all apart from the textarea. Just looked at it in safari now, and have realised that my input

Answer 1

Because you have something as text in your textarea with a linebreak in it.

<textarea rows="5" cols="30" placeholder="enter optional message">
        </textarea><br />

Should be:

<textarea rows="5" cols="30" placeholder="enter optional message"></textarea><br />