Re: Compare Textarea Value to Hidden Field Value

[tangent]

As Your Mother points out, this is much easier to implement on the client side. If you use jQuery your hidden field can be reduced to a boolean value and all you need do is something like:

$("#id_of_textarea").change( function() {
  $("#id_of_textarea_changed").val(1);
});

I'm sure this would be easy enough in plain Javascript also.