Re:Comments Convertion-part2

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1998

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 18438
interpreted = N
texte = >>I have a page that has a text box where users can input comments on our>>products.>>>>But whenever a user hits the return and starts a new paragraph, the text is>>not converted so, when displayed on a following page.>>>>Is there a way to do this? Perhaps having all hardreturns changed in to a>>
html tag?>>Wrap the user input in a [CONVERTCHARS] context before displaying it.And if you want to edit it again use the [input] tagfrom the online docsTo prepare text fields that may contain carriage returns for use in portions of a form, put it inside an [Input]context. Certain letters, such as carriage returns, are converted tosoft-returns when they are saved in a database file. The[Input] context converts them back to hard-returns so they look rightwhen displayed inside <textarea> tags.Example (normally you would put the following text into a .tpl file on yourserver and use a web browser to link to it): <textarea>[Input][fieldName][/Input]===============================================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=============================================== Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re:Comments Convertion-part2 (Gary Richter 1998)

>>I have a page that has a text box where users can input comments on our>>products.>>>>But whenever a user hits the return and starts a new paragraph, the text is>>not converted so, when displayed on a following page.>>>>Is there a way to do this? Perhaps having all hardreturns changed in to a>>
html tag?>>Wrap the user input in a [convertchars] context before displaying it.And if you want to edit it again use the [input] tagfrom the online docsTo prepare text fields that may contain carriage returns for use in portions of a form, put it inside an <a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a>context. Certain letters, such as carriage returns, are converted tosoft-returns when they are saved in a database file. The<a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a> context converts them back to hard-returns so they look rightwhen displayed inside <textarea> tags.Example (normally you would put the following text into a .tpl file on yourserver and use a web browser to link to it): <textarea><a target="_parent" href="page.dna?numero=182">[input]</a>[fieldName][/Input]===============================================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=============================================== Gary Richter

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