Textarea on html forms

How can i save the text in the textarea box.....?

[Midnight776]

I am making an html ebook. It is like a bible study type ebook.. and in it there are questions. I made a textarea form under all the questions for people to type answers in. But when you go to the next page and then back to the previous page, all the stuff they they typed into the textarea is gone. How do i make it so that the text that people type into the textarea box is not erased when you move on to the next page of the ebook?

[txbakers]

Hi Midnight, welcome to the wonderful world of web programming.

What are looking to do is not standard HTML coding anymore. A user enters information in the box, and you want to process it.

This now involves some type of scripting to read the entry and process the result.

There are many ways to do this, depending on the level of language skills you want to tackle and the operating system of the web host.

For a quick overview, I'd suggest looking at www.w3schools.com and search for "form processing".

A company I have dealt with in the past has just released a form processor software which looks pretty good. I like their other products, but have no need for this one.

There are probably also pre-built CGI programs to handle this which you could download and install.

It's the first step into a wider world.

[bondjamesbond]

Yes, this can not be done in HTML. You need to use some kind of server-side language like PHP, ASP etc. There are many articles and tutorials on the Internet that will be able to help.