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Displaying HTML code in textarea. How?

Bruce Gust
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Here's what I've got in my source code:

<textarea name="metatags"><META NAME="DESCRIPTION" CONTENT="RTA Kitchen Cabinets Online, Wholesale Kitchen Cabinets, Buy RTA Cabinets Online, Maple RTA Cabinets"> <META NAME="ABSTRACT" CONTENT="RTA Cabinets, Maple Cabinets, Wholesale Cabinets, Buy Cabinets Online"> <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="RTA Cabinet,RTA Kitchen Cabinets, Maple Cabinets, Kitchen Cabinets, buy kitchen cabinets, buy cabinets online, cabinets, rta cabinets, cabinet maker"> </textarea>

This is the result of my doing this:

<textarea name="metatags"><?php echo htmlspecialchars_decode($row['metatags']); ?></textarea>

I'm not seeing anything. My textarea is blank.

What do I need to change?
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