Textarea won't show anything inside of it when used with asp-for in razor-pages ASP.NET Core MVC

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The HTML tag <input> works fine and displays the data inside of it, but when I am using <textarea> it doesn't work and it probably does not work with asp-for but I'm still forced to use asp-for because I'm using .NET Core to build the web-page.

This is the output code that is malfunctioning (.cshtml)

@foreach (ComplaintManagement.Context.notesData note in ViewBag.getID)
                    {
                        <label>Subject</label>
                        <input required="required" class="form-control" asp-for="subject" value="@note.subject" />
                        <label>Summary</label>
                        <textarea class="form-control mb-2" asp-for="summary" rows="10">@note.summary</textarea>
                    }

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2 Answers

I found out an answer myself, instead of using asp-for I used this

<label>Summary</label>
<textarea class="form-control mb-2" rows="10" name="@Html.NameFor(m => m.summary)">@note.summary</textarea>

Using name="" instead of asp-for="" for the textarea solved the issue.

user_142593970

In normal scenario:

<textarea name='awesome'>Default value</textarea>

But in your case:

.NET Core developers who use asp-for must use a constructor in the model class to set the default value.

Example:

public class Service()
{
    public string Description { get; set; }
    //other properties

    public Service() //the constructor
    {
      Description = "Put the default value here!";
      //other default values
     }
}
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