How to add default value for html <textarea>?

html, textarea

Solution

Here is my jsFiddle example. this works fine:

<textarea name='awesome'>Default value</textarea>

Problem

I want to set a default value for my html `<textarea>`. I read from a material that to add default value you have to do something like `<textarea>This is default text</textarea>`. I did that but it doesn't work. What's the right thing to do?

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