pulling a value from database in text area

[malik]

this does not seem to work

<textarea name="content" cols="30" rows="10"
value ="<? echo $row[3];?>"> </textarea>

also this code also doesn not seem to work

<text area name="content" cols="30" rows="10" ><?echo "$row[3]";?>
</textarea>

does not seem to work either

does any body has any idea how to pull a value from database for textarea

[devinemke]

<textarea name="content" cols="30" rows="10"><? echo $row[3] ?></textarea>