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Passing Text Area Data to CGI Program in Python
TEXTAREA element is used when multiline text has to be passed to the CGI Program.
Example
Here is example HTML code for a form with a TEXTAREA box −
<form action = "/cgi-bin/textarea.py" method = "post" target = "_blank"> <textarea name = "textcontent" cols = "40" rows = "4"> Type your text here... </textarea> <input type = "submit" value = "Submit" /> </form>
The result of this code is the following form −
Below is textarea.cgi script to handle input given by web browser −
#!/usr/bin/python # Import modules for CGI handling import cgi, cgitb # Create instance of FieldStorage form = cgi.FieldStorage() # Get data from fields if form.getvalue('textcontent'): text_content = form.getvalue('textcontent') else: text_content = "Not entered" print "Content-type:text/html\r\n\r\n" print "<html>" print "<head>"; print "<title>Text Area - Fifth CGI Program</title>" print "</head>" print "<body>" print "<h2> Entered Text Content is %s</h2>" % text_content print "</body>"
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