Windows IE not showing passed variable

Anon

The problem is is that in Windows the text area leaves off the first <b> symbol or first bit of text from the flat file. It shoes up in the source code, but not on the page that the user sees, and cosequently gets submitted with the missing first element??

what's up. This works fine on Mac browsers though???

thanks

derek

here is the code:
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<form>
<?php

	$file=fopen("the.txt","r");
	$data=fread($file,10000);
	print("<TEXTAREA NAME=content value=$data ROWS=40 COLS=40></TEXTAREA>");

?>
</form>
</body>

Anon

Try the following code snippet and check whether it helps u.

<form>
<?php

$file=fopen("the.txt","r");
$data=fread($file,10000);
print("<TEXTAREA NAME=content ROWS=40 COLS=40>$data</TEXTAREA>");

?>
</form>