diff --git a/src/components/Latl.js b/src/components/Latl.js
index ac06eec..feb540a 100644
--- a/src/components/Latl.js
+++ b/src/components/Latl.js
@@ -5,20 +5,21 @@ const Latl = ({latl, dispatch}) => {
   const { innerWidth, innerHeight } = window;
   
   const handleChange = e => {
-    console.log(e.target.value)
     const setLatlAction = {
       type: 'SET_LATL',
       value: e.target.value
     }
-    dispatch(setLatlAction)
+    dispatch(setLatlAction);
   }
 
   return (  
     <div className="Latl">
       <h3>.LATL</h3>
       <textarea name="latl" id="latl" 
-        cols={'' + Math.floor(innerWidth / 15)} rows={'' + Math.floor(innerHeight / 30)}
-        onChange={e => dispatch({type:'SET_LATL', value: e.target.value})}
+        value={latl}
+        cols={'' + Math.floor(innerWidth / 15)} 
+        rows={'' + Math.floor(innerHeight / 30)}
+        onChange={handleChange}
       />
     </div>
   );
diff --git a/src/components/LatlOutput.js b/src/components/LatlOutput.js
index ac56b20..a893de9 100644
--- a/src/components/LatlOutput.js
+++ b/src/components/LatlOutput.js
@@ -2,10 +2,11 @@ import React from 'react';
 import './LatlOutput.scss';
 
 const LatlOutput = ({results, options, dispatch}) => {
+
   return (
     <div className="LatlOutput">
       <h3>Output</h3>
-      <form action={() => {}}>
+      <form>
         <input 
           className="form form--remove"
           type="submit"
diff --git a/src/reducers/reducer.js b/src/reducers/reducer.js
index f375d9f..a515489 100644
--- a/src/reducers/reducer.js
+++ b/src/reducers/reducer.js
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ import type { resultsAction } from './reducer.results'
 import { initState } from './reducer.init';
 import type { initAction } from './reducer.init';
 import { clearOutput } from './reducer.clear';
-import { setLatl } from './reducer.latl';
+import { setLatl, parseLatl } from './reducer.latl';
 
 export type stateType = {
   lexicon: Array<{lexeme: string, epoch: epochType}>,
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ export const stateReducer = (state: stateType, action: actionType): stateType =>
 
     case 'SET_LATL': return setLatl(state, action);
 
+    case 'PARSE_LATL': return parseLatl(state, action);
+
     case 'CLEAR': return clearOutput(state, action);
 
     case 'RUN': return run(state, action);
diff --git a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
index 3de9a0a..8a0e48e 100644
--- a/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
+++ b/src/reducers/reducer.latl.js
@@ -3,4 +3,9 @@
 export const setLatl = (state, action) => {
   let latl = action.value;
   return {...state, latl};
+}
+
+export const parseLatl = (state, action) => {
+  let latl = state.action;
+  return { ...state }
 }
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