Problem displaying form field

[partyboy]

Hi,

If I do this:
echo $line_contents[1];

It displays:
Please inform a staff member.

But the following line:
echo "<p><input NAME="errordetail" TYPE="text" value=".$line_contents[1]."></p>";

• only displays a text box with the following:
  Please

Does anybody have any ideas why this could be?

Thanks!!

[Anon]

You need to escape the quotes
echo "<p><input NAME=\"errordetail\" TYPE=\"text\" value=\"$line_contents[1]\"></p>";

[partyboy]

Thanks for the reply but I have escaped the quotes!

Notice for the variable $line_contents[1] I have concatenated it (using ".")

[releasedj]

In html, if you have and attribute value which has anything other than alpha-numeric characters, then the actual attribute must have quotes around it, i.e.:
<input type=button value='The Button'>

therefore you must use:
echo "<p><input NAME='errordetail' TYPE='text' value='".$line_contents[1]."'></p>";

[partyboy]

that's it!

thank you 😉