leading blanks in text areas

rubyonrails-talk
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I've been struggling with this for a while now and I give up. I searched and searched but couldn't find the answer either. My edit form has a text area with the following HTML         <p><b>Description</b><br>           <textarea cols="40" id="workout_description" name="workout[description]" rows="5" wrap="virtual">           <%=@workout.description%></textarea> </p>

Whenever the page loads, 10 extra blank spaces are in the text box before the description. The spaces are not in the database. If I don't remove them before saving, the blanks get saved to the database. Any ideas on why this is happening? I changed the code to an input field and the problem goes away.

Thanks, jankers

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If i look at your html code it looks like there are ten spaces after the start textarea tag and the <%=.....

Rasmus

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Change it to:

<textarea cols="40" id="workout_description" name="workout[description]" rows="5" wrap="virtual"><%=@workout.description%></textarea>

(ie, remove the line break after your textarea tag) and you should be set.

...j