Re: Displaying text and populating form fields
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
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texte = Hello, I have a form where user fill out a text area, then when they post the page, the resulting page sends an email with the content of their message. I also display their message on the webpage. The data is never stored in a database. When I display the data on the results page, all line breaks are lost .. What should I be doing to this data so that the line breaks are preserved on this results page? on the message page, the textarea is:
On the results page, to display their message from the textarea on the preceeding page: [unurl][message][/unurl] Over time I have tried many things, but the above has been the best so far. I would really like to be able to display the line breaks in their message without having to store it in a database. Thanks On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:30:15 +0800 Kenneth Grome
wrote: > >on 2/23/2005 1:30 pm, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@euca.us so noted... > > > >> as well as it doesn't protect against when someone goes to edit > >>formerlly > >> textarea input (input with carraige returns) in a hidden form > >>field. > > > >As an aside, I've a CMS that's been used for the last five years > >with a > >variety of Mac and PC users on various browsers. It passes > >textarea-entered > >data with plain, unescaped, drop-to-the-next-line line breaks using > >hidden > >form fields across multiple pages without any problems. > > > That's because the data is initially entered by the visitor into a > textarea field which can pass line break characters, and you're > continuing to pass the data via hidden form fields which can *also* > pass line break characters. > > If you switched from hidden fields to text fields when passing your > data you would immediately learn that everything after the first > line break character will be lost, because text fields cannot pass > line break characters or anything that follows a line break > character. Of course you're not going to do this, I'm only saying > this to illustrate a point, and my point is this: > > Hidden fields and textarea fields work exactly the same, except that > one is editable by the visitor and one is not. It's the text fields > that cannot pass line break characters, and this is what creates the > problem ... > > -- > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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Hello, I have a form where user fill out a text area, then when they post the page, the resulting page sends an email with the content of their message. I also display their message on the webpage. The data is never stored in a database. When I display the data on the results page, all line breaks are lost .. What should I be doing to this data so that the line breaks are preserved on this results page? on the message page, the textarea is: On the results page, to display their message from the textarea on the preceeding page: [unurl][message][/unurl] Over time I have tried many things, but the above has been the best so far. I would really like to be able to display the line breaks in their message without having to store it in a database. Thanks On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 13:30:15 +0800 Kenneth Grome wrote: > >on 2/23/2005 1:30 pm, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@euca.us so noted... > > > >> as well as it doesn't protect against when someone goes to edit > >>formerlly > >> textarea input (input with carraige returns) in a hidden form > >>field. > > > >As an aside, I've a CMS that's been used for the last five years > >with a > >variety of Mac and PC users on various browsers. It passes > >textarea-entered > >data with plain, unescaped, drop-to-the-next-line line breaks using > >hidden > >form fields across multiple pages without any problems. > > > That's because the data is initially entered by the visitor into a > textarea field which can pass line break characters, and you're > continuing to pass the data via hidden form fields which can *also* > pass line break characters. > > If you switched from hidden fields to text fields when passing your > data you would immediately learn that everything after the first > line break character will be lost, because text fields cannot pass > line break characters or anything that follows a line break > character. Of course you're not going to do this, I'm only saying > this to illustrate a point, and my point is this: > > Hidden fields and textarea fields work exactly the same, except that > one is editable by the visitor and one is not. It's the text fields > that cannot pass line break characters, and this is what creates the > problem ... > > -- > > Sincerely, > Kenneth Grome > www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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