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When I create a DSP textarea tag like this it outputs the value of the bean property in the text area box.

<dsp:textarea bean="MyFormHandler.foo" rows="5" cols="20"/>

Similarly if I create a DSP textarea tag like this I get the same output.

<dsp:textarea bean="MyFormHandler.foo" rows="5" cols="20"></dsp:textarea>

However when I leave some space between the textarea opening and closing tag I get a blank instead of the value of the bean property in the text area box.

<dsp:textarea bean="MyFormHandler.foo" rows="5" cols="20">
</dsp:textarea>

Anyone know why there is a difference?

Anyway after reading the documentation it turns out if I want to control what is output in the text box I can use the default attribute.

<dsp:textarea bean="MyFormHandler.foo" rows="5" cols="20" default="bar"/>

Maybe I should have read the documentation before writing this post.

Update 2009-09-03: I also found this strange pattern of behavior with the DSP droplet tag.  When I invoked a droplet that took no parameters and had no open parameters like this:

<dsp:droplet name="MyDroplet"/>

or like this:

<dsp:droplet name="MyDroplet"></dsp:droplet>

the droplet would not be invoked.

However when I did this the droplet was invoked.  Strange …

<dsp:droplet name="MyDroplet">
</dsp:droplet>

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