Re: textarea input- nevermind

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2002


It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 44247
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texte = As a follow-up, what I wound up doing for HTML enabled textareas, was to use a convertchars db that stripped ALL hard returns and thus if
was typed in, it was converted to a linebreak but no hard returns were appended so they had no effect. I.e., user types a line, his enter a couple of times, then types a
, it would only do one linebreak as the hard returns would be removed and the one
would be processed.For non-html enabled textareas, i.e., I want hard returns to actually be a hard return but
would show just as that and not be an actual break (thus, don't type that) I just used the default [convertchars] around the field when pulling it out of the db and just [url]'d it going in.GK > Yes, converchars ..exscuse me.. was the ticket: > %0B
> > sorry to bother, > D > > Donovan Brooke wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a text area that inputs text the way I want it formated into the > > database. > > I can then view this text again in a textarea input and it comes up just > > the way > > I saved it in the database. (ie. > name=>[input][/input]) > > > > What I would like is a way to change those cr's to
's or something > > so > > that when they are viewed in a HTML page they will come up formated as I > > have > > formated them in the textarea. would convertwords be the key here to > > dynamically > > format the text the same as what is seen in a textarea? > > > > thanks, > > Donovan ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

    
  1. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Gary Krockover 2002)
  2. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Donovan Brooke 2002)
  3. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Gary Krockover 2002)
  4. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Donovan Brooke 2002)
  5. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Gary Krockover 2002)
  6. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Gary Krockover 2002)
  7. Re: textarea input- nevermind (Donovan Brooke 2002)
As a follow-up, what I wound up doing for HTML enabled textareas, was to use a convertchars db that stripped ALL hard returns and thus if
was typed in, it was converted to a linebreak but no hard returns were appended so they had no effect. I.e., user types a line, his enter a couple of times, then types a
, it would only do one linebreak as the hard returns would be removed and the one
would be processed.For non-html enabled textareas, i.e., I want hard returns to actually be a hard return but
would show just as that and not be an actual break (thus, don't type that) I just used the default [convertchars] around the field when pulling it out of the db and just [url]'d it going in.GK > Yes, converchars ..exscuse me.. was the ticket: > %0B
> > sorry to bother, > D > > Donovan Brooke wrote: > > > Hi, > > I have a text area that inputs text the way I want it formated into the > > database. > > I can then view this text again in a textarea input and it comes up just > > the way > > I saved it in the database. (ie. > name=>[input][/input]) > > > > What I would like is a way to change those cr's to
's or something > > so > > that when they are viewed in a HTML page they will come up formated as I > > have > > formated them in the textarea. would convertwords be the key here to > > dynamically > > format the text the same as what is seen in a textarea? > > > > thanks, > > Donovan ------------------------------------------------------------- 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://search.smithmicro.com/ Gary Krockover

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