code in textarea

[ymadh1]

<form action="test1.php">
<textarea name="t1">
<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var sc_project=1885220;
var sc_invisible=0;
var sc_partition=17;
var sc_security="912c4488";
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/counter.js"></script><noscript><a href="http://www.statcounter.com/" target="_blank"><img src="http://c18.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=1885220&amp;java=0&amp;security=912c4488&amp;invisible=0" alt="free web hit counter" border="0"></a> </noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->
</textarea>
<input type="submit" value="submit">
</form>

---

<? print $t1; ?>

Why doesn't that work?

[jpmoriarty]

Why doesn't what work?

[Weedpacket]

Well, for one thing, like any other chunk of text being inserted into HTML, it has to be escaped with htmlspecialchars()....