Hi I have been trying to pepopulate a textareafield using something like this in the template.
{{form.content(value="please type content")}}
This works when the field is textfield primarily because the html
accepts value for <input type="text">
but the same does not work for textarea...
Can someone please help me with this?
For textarea widgets, you set the default content with the default argument in your field constructors.
class YourForm(Form):
your_text_area = TextAreaField("TextArea", default="please add content")
Then when you render:
{{form.content()}}
WTForms will render the default text. I have not been able to find a way to specify default text for the text area at render time.
In a Textarea you will need to use innerHTML or html() if you use jquery.
in your context should be:
form.content.innerHTML = "please type content";
//using jquery
$('#element').html("please type content");
Hope it helps.