Re: Use of & in text areas follow-up

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 16251
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texte = >At 06:11 PM 2/25/98, Paul Uttermohlen wrote:>>Hello,>>>>I've noticed that our users run into problems when they attempt to use>>tabs, returns and anpersands (&) in text area fields in databases I've set>>up.>>>>Is there anyway around this problem?>>>>Text in text areas is truncated when it encounters the & in the text for>>that field. Newer carpet & furnace... gets clipped to Newer Carpet.Paul keep in mind this does not only apply to

.  It could be anyinput field.  Maybe you ask for a company name on a 40 wide single lineinput and somebodies company is named Smith & Jones, Inc.  Same problem.When you expose input fields to the general public vs your own staff youwill get some very strange input :)Try to get your hands on an ISO 8559-1 table which list all the illegalcharacters for html.  Like the copyright symbol which needs to be either© or © inside of an html doc.  Those are the things that the[url] tag fixes.  Meaning it takes an illegal html character typed into aninput field or textarea and converts it on the fly to the correct code perthe iso 8559-1 table.I hope this is more clear to you now.BTW many html books will have these characters listed in the appendix.===============================================Gary Richter        PanaVise Products, Inc.        7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511        Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929        Email: grichter@panavise.com        http://www.panavise.com===============================================

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>At 06:11 PM 2/25/98, Paul Uttermohlen wrote:>>Hello,>>>>I've noticed that our users run into problems when they attempt to use>>tabs, returns and anpersands (&) in text area fields in databases I've set>>up.>>>>Is there anyway around this problem?>>>>Text in text areas is truncated when it encounters the & in the text for>>that field. Newer carpet & furnace... gets clipped to Newer Carpet.Paul keep in mind this does not only apply to <textarea>. It could be anyinput field. Maybe you ask for a company name on a 40 wide single lineinput and somebodies company is named Smith & Jones, Inc. Same problem.When you expose input fields to the general public vs your own staff youwill get some very strange input :)Try to get your hands on an ISO 8559-1 table which list all the illegalcharacters for html. Like the copyright symbol which needs to be either© or © inside of an html doc. Those are the things that the<a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=89">[url]</a> tag fixes. Meaning it takes an illegal html character typed into aninput field or textarea and converts it on the fly to the correct code perthe iso 8559-1 table.I hope this is more clear to you now.BTW many html books will have these characters listed in the appendix.===============================================Gary Richter PanaVise Products, Inc. 7540 Colbert Dr. Reno, Nevada 89511 Ph: 702.850.2900 Fx: 702.850.2929 Email: grichter@panavise.com http://www.panavise.com===============================================

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