Re: Stumpted Again

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1997

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 12311
interpreted = N
texte = At 11:07 AM 7/8/97, Grant Hulbert altered the fabric of cyberspace,writing:> >If a poster uses html in the posting all is fine. If the poster then> >decides to 'edit' his posting that starts (important starts) with an html> >tag, WebCat thinks there is no text in the field and prompts you with You> >must put some text in the Announcement feild.>> If you view the source of that form, you'll see that there is illegal>HTML generated because you're trying to put HTML inside of an edit field.>Netscape can't tell the difference between the tags that you think of as>'raw text', and the true tags that surround it.>> The solution is to look at how we implemented the PageEditor templates in>TemplateEditor/EditPage.tmpl. WebCatalog can convert those characters>like < and > to < and > so they don't confuse the >tag. Basically you need to wrap [input]...[/input] around your data>fields to prepare them for use in an input field in a form.Grant,I understand about the [input] tag.I am using: <P>Announcement:<TEXTAREA NAME=form.body ROWS=8 COLS=55wrap=virtual>[input][bodyText][/input]

But you know that this is for editing.... humm....The orginal posting containing the html tags went to the database unchangedwith the html intact. The edit washes the text through the [input] tagwhile the orginal does not.<--Glenn-->~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Glenn & Renee DavisExclusively Web / Net Highway (916) 887-0678Web Page Design / Hosting ServicesPOB 157, Cool,CA 95614-0157http://www.ExclusivelyWeb.comhttp://www.Net-Hwy.com &&& ||| (@ @) (@ @)----------------------------ooO---U---Ooo---------------ooO--(_)--Ooo------->> Mailto:renee@Net-Hwy.com Mailto:glenn@Net-Hwy.com Mailto:renee@ExclusivelyWeb.com Mailto:glenn@ExclusivelyWeb.com Graphics Design Webmaster Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: Stumpted Again (Grant Hulbert 1997) Re: Stumpted Again (Kenneth Grome 1997) Re: Stumpted Again (Glenn Davis 1997) Re: Stumpted Again (Kenneth Grome 1997) Re: Stumpted Again (Grant Hulbert 1997) Stumpted Again (Glenn Davis 1997)

At 11:07 AM 7/8/97, Grant Hulbert altered the fabric of cyberspace,writing:> >If a poster uses html in the posting all is fine. If the poster then> >decides to 'edit' his posting that starts (important starts) with an html> >tag, WebCat thinks there is no text in the field and prompts you with You> >must put some text in the Announcement feild.>> If you view the source of that form, you'll see that there is illegal>HTML generated because you're trying to put HTML inside of an edit field.>Netscape can't tell the difference between the tags that you think of as>'raw text', and the true tags that surround it.>> The solution is to look at how we implemented the PageEditor templates in>TemplateEditor/EditPage.tmpl. WebCatalog can convert those characters>like < and > to < and > so they don't confuse the >tag. Basically you need to wrap <a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a>...[/input] around your data>fields to prepare them for use in an input field in a form.Grant,I understand about the <a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a> tag.I am using: <P>Announcement:<TEXTAREA NAME=form.body ROWS=8 COLS=55wrap=virtual><a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a>[bodyText][/input]

But you know that this is for editing.... humm....The orginal posting containing the html tags went to the database unchangedwith the html intact. The edit washes the text through the [input] tagwhile the orginal does not.<--Glenn-->~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Glenn & Renee DavisExclusively Web / Net Highway (916) 887-0678Web Page Design / Hosting ServicesPOB 157, Cool,CA 95614-0157http://www.ExclusivelyWeb.comhttp://www.Net-Hwy.com &&& ||| (@ @) (@ @)----------------------------ooO---U---Ooo---------------ooO--(_)--Ooo------->> Mailto:renee@Net-Hwy.com Mailto:glenn@Net-Hwy.com Mailto:renee@ExclusivelyWeb.com Mailto:glenn@ExclusivelyWeb.com Graphics Design Webmaster Glenn Davis

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