Blank spaces instead of place holder text

Question

for some reason instead of a text placeholder I get blank spaces;

Here is part of my code:

<tr>
    <td><label>Email:</label></td>
    <td><input type="email" name="emailAddress" placeholder="johnSmith@email.com"
               value="<?php if (isset($_POST['emailAddress'])) {
                   echo $_POST['emailAddress'];
               } ?>"/></td>
</tr>
<tr>  
    <td><label>Comment:</label></td>
    <td><textarea name="comment" cols="40" rows="10" placeholder="Please enter your content here"
                  value="<?php if (isset($_POST['comment'])) {
                      echo $_POST['comment'];
                  } ?>">
        </textarea></td>
</tr>

Here is how it looks like: actual

There are exactly 20 spaces when I load the page, if I select the text area and select all the spaces and delete them, then the placeholder appears (as in "supposed" image)

Here is how it is supposed to look like: supposed

In the textarea code, I removed all spaces and placed the code in one line then I used auto-indent several times. I cannot find how the spaces get there when the page is loaded.. Thanks in advance. Any help would be much appreciated.

and those spaces stand at being between the brace and echo `{ echo` but formatting here doesn't show them all. Which is basically what I counted. — Funk Forty Niner, Jan 04 '16 at 22:07
I think I get the point, then how can I get the text from textarea and use it when "Sent" is clicked? — 4673_j, Jan 04 '16 at 22:11
I have found it, I needed to match: these as in this post: "Good: Bad: " — 4673_j, Jan 04 '16 at 22:15

Blank spaces instead of place holder text

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