# Input text as compared to html textarea?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-as-compared-to-html-textarea/178256
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**Created:** [February 8, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-as-compared-to-html-textarea/178256 "2006-02-08T21:57:36Z")
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### Author: ![salimai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@salimai](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/salimai)
#### Post date: [February 8, 2006, 9:57pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/input-text-as-compared-to-html-textarea/178256/1 "2006-02-08T21:57:36Z")

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What I have is an html textarea that uses hidden inputs to direct how to process the text and code into an existing database. I have been attempting to replicate this in flash, but I haven’t been able to find any resources to even help me really get started. So if you know of a good place to find a tuturial or other reference on this subject, feel free to just link me to that rather than adressing my specific issue. I’ve looked, but unsuccessfully.

So in html, I have 4 components.

The first component defines how to post to the database.

```auto
<form method="post" action="index.cfm?fuseaction=user.Confirm">

```

The second component is a hidden unique user ID.

```auto
<input type="hidden" name="userID" value="(ID goes here)">

```

The third component is the text input.

```auto
<textarea name="userinput" (textarea formatting was here)></textarea>

```

And the fourth component is the submit button.

```auto
<input type="submit" value="Post To Database">

```

If you could help me learn how to use flash to post to the database in the same manner, I would greatly appreciate it.