html - Weird behavior: Placeholder not appearing on the textarea -

I want to create a "comment plugin", so I started with markup and some styles.

Everything was OK until I added the textarea element

HTML code for that element:

  & Lt; Textarea rows = "7" cols = "37" placeholder = "Ingersche Soo Comterio" & gt; & Lt; / Text field & gt;   
 But something strange happened, because when I loaded the page, a default text appears in the textranina.  
 
  Q1: What do you think is happening?   
  Q2: How to fix it?     
 Thank you, Leonardo  
 PS: If this works, then I have Chrome version 27.0.1453.116 Work with Remove line breaks in TextRena from markup in any place, place between HTML formatting textures and closing tags.   
 
 
 Change this:  
  & lt; Textarea rows = "7" cols = "37" placeholder = "Ingersuit Sue Comterio" & gt; & Lt; / Text field & gt;   
 to:  
  & lt; Textarea rows = "7" cols = "37" placeholder = "Ingersuit Sue Comterio" & gt; & Lt; / Textarea & gt;   
  
 and just allow your texture to be a  padding-left  other input boxes  
  Tetaria {padding-left: 10px; }