title: Spring MVC: how can I give the <form:textarea /> tag a default value?
body: <p>I have a problem with giving the <code>&lt;form:textarea /&gt;</code> tag a default value.<br />
  When I created a JSP file as follows:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;form:textarea path=&quot;Content&quot; id=&quot;my-text-box&quot; /&gt;${content}
  </code></pre>
  <p>JSP parser translates the above line to:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea id=&quot;my-text-box&quot; name=&quot;Content&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;third hello world!
  </code></pre>
  <p>Also, giving the <code>value</code> attribute does not work.</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;form:textarea value=&quot;${content}&quot; path=&quot;Content&quot; id=&quot;my-text-box&quot; /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>JSP gives me as HTML output:</p>
  <pre><code>&lt;textarea id=&quot;my-text-box&quot; name=&quot;Content&quot; value=&quot;third hello world!&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
  </code></pre>
  <p>You can see the <code>&lt;textarea&gt;</code> tag does not have the <code>value</code> attribute.</p>
  <p>How can I pass a default value to <code>&lt;form:textarea&gt;</code> tag?<br />
  Thank you in advance.</p>