the value of the below textarea does not display in the textarea.nothing is shown.please help. thanks in advance.

PHP Code:

mysql_select_db($database_sql1, $sql1);
$query_rs_uncertpost = "SELECT topic_id, post_owner, post_description FROM forum_post WHERE confirm='no'";
$query_limit_rs_uncertpost = sprintf("%s LIMIT %d, %d", $query_rs_uncertpost, $startRow_rs_uncertpost, $maxRows_rs_uncertpost);
$rs_uncertpost = mysql_query($query_limit_rs_uncertpost, $sql1) or die(mysql_error());
$row_rs_uncertpost = mysql_fetch_assoc($rs_uncertpost);
<textarea name="postdesc" type="text" value="<?php echo $row_rs_uncertpost['post_description']; ?>" ></textarea>

the text for a textarea goes between the tags not in the value attribute

What chrishirst said, and there should be neither a type nor value attribute at all.
That is, it should be like so

<textarea name="some_name">value goes here</textarea>

Yea ! Please try this ..

<textarea name="txtarea_name" >
<?php echo $row_rs_uncertpost['post_description']; ?>
</textarea>