html textarea vs input code example

Example 1: html set textarea value

// To set the textarea value, you must insert the TEXT into the element.
VALUE
// javascript
var textarea = `${value}`;
document.getElementById('my_textarea_id').textContent = 'foo'
// php
$value = 'foo';
$textarea = "$value";
echo $textarea;

Example 2: form::textarea

{!! Form::textarea('placeOfDeath',null,['class'=>'form-control', 'rows' => 2, 'cols' => 40]) !!}