Re: Forcing Paragraph Breaks on Results
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 1998
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 21856
interpreted = N
texte = [ConvertChars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.At 11:07 AM 12/16/98, dave herriman wrote: >I wanted to ask for a little help in coming up with possible solutions for >this. Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the >results of a search? I have users copying and pasting long passages of text >and [adding] these to a db. Trouble is when they're displayed, it all runs >together in a long string, flush left and fit within the boundaries of a frame >or whatever, but still one very long string. > >Short of making the users copy/paste into separate, multiple textarea fields >(for the individual paragraphs) that would be formatted with hard breaks >between them on the results page, is there a way to [getChars] or something, >looking for the end of a sentence, insert the HTML break(s), then pick up the >rest of the text with additional [getChars]/paragraph sets as needed all the >way to the end?? Sounds kind of like the way [boldWords] works on a result, >but this would be searching for a particular string like .(space), then >adding an HTML
before continuing. > >Sort of what I had in mind, but not quite: >[getChars start=1&end=400][fieldName]
[/getChars] >[getChars start=401&end=800][fieldName]
[/getChars] >[getChars start=801&end=10000][fieldName]
[/getChars] > >Tell me there's a better way! Thanks. > >-- > >[/dave], on digest > > >webmaster >metropolitan community colleges >kansas city, missouri >http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us >mailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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[convertchars][fieldName][/ConvertChars] will do what you want.At 11:07 AM 12/16/98, dave herriman wrote: >I wanted to ask for a little help in coming up with possible solutions for >this. Can anyone think of a way to put (forced) paragraph breaks inside the >results of a search? I have users copying and pasting long passages of text >and [adding] these to a db. Trouble is when they're displayed, it all runs >together in a long string, flush left and fit within the boundaries of a frame >or whatever, but still one very long string. > >Short of making the users copy/paste into separate, multiple textarea fields >(for the individual paragraphs) that would be formatted with hard breaks >between them on the results page, is there a way to
[getchars] or something, >looking for the end of a sentence, insert the HTML break(s), then pick up the >rest of the text with additional
[getchars]/paragraph sets as needed all the >way to the end?? Sounds kind of like the way
[boldwords] works on a result, >but this would be searching for a particular string like .(space), then >adding an HTML
before continuing. > >Sort of what I had in mind, but not quite: >[getChars start=1&end=400][fieldName]
[/getChars] >[getChars start=401&end=800][fieldName]
[/getChars] >[getChars start=801&end=10000][fieldName]
[/getChars] > >Tell me there's a better way! Thanks. > >-- > >[/dave], on digest > > >webmaster >metropolitan community colleges >kansas city, missouri >http://www.kcmetro.cc.mo.us >mailto:herriman@kcmetro.cc.mo.us o--------------- Dave MacLeay --+ o----------- Digital Frontier --+ o--------------- 802.253.8612 --+ o--- dave@digitalfrontier.com --+
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