Can't get textarea value - html

Question

I'm trying to get the textarea value from a HTML form with Go, but it always returns as blank/null.
HTML form:
<form method="POST" action="/tickets/" name="ticketForm">
<textarea rows="3" cols="50" class="form-control" name="ticketDescription" id="ticketDescription" form="ticketForm" required> </textarea>
</form>
Golang method to capture form data:
inputDescription := r.PostFormValue("ticketDescription")
If I choose ' input="text" ', for example, it gives me the value. It's just from textarea that goes with blank/null. I've used "fmt.Println(inputDescription)" just to see if Go is retrieving the value, and it goes as a blank value too.

Answer 1

The form attribute of <textarea> must be the id attribute of a <form>, not name. Also, form is not necessary if the <textarea> is inside the <form>.
Since in your example your <form> has no id attribute and you provided form for your <textarea>, its value will not be sent when the form is submitted.
So do it like this:
<form method="POST" action="/tickets/" name="ticketForm">
<textarea name="ticketDescription" id="ticketDescription" required> </textarea>
</form>
Or:
<form method="POST" action="/tickets/" id="ticketForm">
</form>
<textarea name="ticketDescription" id="ticketDescription"
form="ticketForm" required> </textarea>
Also don't forget that in your handler you must call Request.ParseForm() before you can access form values (Request.Form), or use Request.FormValue() or Request.PostFormValue() (which call Request.Parseform() if necessary).