Re: UN-WANTED character conversion

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1999

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 23736
interpreted = N
texte = >I have constructed a template that creates a html page with the results of a>form, everything works well excepts one thing, I have a field for the BODY>of the page and want to be able to put any text or html in this, but when I>put in, lets say tables, all of the html commands < > get converted to><, >,and ". I figured this could be happening from the standard>conversions database so I went and made my own db to try to convert them>back to valid html characters, I'm sure this is something simple that I'm>just missing, after all it is Monday...heh heh , anyone have any clues?The browser itself tends to convert stuff inside

tags to thisescaped-HTML format.  You might find some options for the TEXTAREA thatdisable this.Technical Support                 | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software            | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court        | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128               | Typhoon619/675-1106  Fax: 619/675-0372   | http://www.smithmicro.com/

Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

<li><a href="page.dna?numero=23770">RE: UN-WANTED character conversion</a> (Talklist <talk@e-pages.com> 1999)</li>

<li><a href="page.dna?numero=23749">UN-WANTED character conversion</a> (Talklist <talk@e-pages.com> 1999)</li>

<li><a href="page.dna?numero=23743">Re: UN-WANTED character conversion</a> (Kenneth Grome <ken@webdna.net> 1999)</li>

<li>Re: UN-WANTED character conversion (PCS Technical Support <support2@smithmicro.com> 1999)</li>

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>I have constructed a template that creates a html page with the results of a>form, everything works well excepts one thing, I have a field for the BODY>of the page and want to be able to put any text or html in this, but when I>put in, lets say tables, all of the html commands < > get converted to><, >,and ". I figured this could be happening from the standard>conversions database so I went and made my own db to try to convert them>back to valid html characters, I'm sure this is something simple that I'm>just missing, after all it is Monday...heh heh , anyone have any clues?The browser itself tends to convert stuff inside <TEXTAREA> tags to thisescaped-HTML format. You might find some options for the TEXTAREA thatdisable this.Technical Support | ==== eCommerce and Beyond ====Pacific Coast Software | WebCatalog, WebMerchant,11770 Bernardo Plaza Court | SiteEdit Pro, PhotoMaster,San Diego, CA 92128 | Typhoon619/675-1106 Fax: 619/675-0372 | http://www.smithmicro.com/

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