Q:

how to remove  whitespace

I want a <textarea>, as the one I'm writing in right now actually.
How do I make the textarea behave like this one? I want it to start at the beginning and not give me whitespace to erase when clicking in the middle of it.
HTML
      <p>
        <textarea class="noteToAdd">

        </textarea>
      </p>

Any ideas?

A:

That what is between the start tag <textarea> and end tag </textarea> is it's value. Even whitespace is seen as 'value'. You probably have something like this: (note the whitespace)

<textarea>
            
</textarea>

So, to remove that, remove all whitespace and place the start and ending tag directly after each other.

<textarea></textarea>

