I'm trying to get data (taken from mongo) to display into a textarea. It's purpose is so that I can edit data within the database without actually touching the database itself. I can display the data within normal HTML tags but I'm pretty clueless on how to get it to display it within a textarea (or any other tags that allow me to edit and re-submit the new data)

I'm rendering with EJS, and so far, everything display correctly with

<%= text %>

I just need it to work within a editable text area

I'm trying to get data (taken from mongo) to display into a textarea. It's purpose is so that I can edit data within the database without actually touching the database itself. I can display the data within normal HTML tags but I'm pretty clueless on how to get it to display it within a textarea (or any other tags that allow me to edit and re-submit the new data)

I'm rendering with EJS, and so far, everything display correctly with

<%= text %>

I just need it to work within a editable text area

• javascript
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• node.js
• ejs

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• Please show what you have so far – Code-Apprentice Commented Oct 28, 2017 at 22:26

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This should work:

<textarea id="yourTextArea"><%= text %></textarea>