title: How to get the content of textarea
body: <p>I have this <code>textarea</code> form:</p>
  
  <pre><code>self.response.out.write("""        
  
  &lt;form name="title" 
  action="/edittitlepitchhandler" 
  method="post"&gt;            
  
  ...
  
  pitch: &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;textarea name="new_pitch" rows="13" cols="75"&gt;
  "%s"
  &lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  
  ...                    
  
  &lt;input type="submit" 
  value="submit"&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;""" % (..., m.pitch, ...) )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I am trying to get the content of the <code>textarea</code> with <code>"%s"</code> but I think the <code>"%s"</code> inside <code>&lt;textarea&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;</code> is picked up as initial text and the textarea box contains quotes. How do I get the content of the <code>textarea</code> so that I can open it later and edit it?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Edit</strong></p>
  
  <p>As per Chris Morgan's comment I deleted the quotes and removed the spaces before <code>%s</code> like this</p>
  
  <pre><code>pitch: &lt;br /&gt;
  &lt;textarea name="new_pitch" rows="13" cols="75"&gt;%s&lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now it works. Thanks.</p>