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texte = An expansion to Ken's guidelines, because we were talking about carriage returns... using [input] in html form fields (and javascripts, and any html tag, such as alt="[something]") as he suggested protects against a value that might contain a single or double QUOTE MARK (depending on which you use in your html). Displaying a quote mark directly will close off the value prematurely. Like so: If [something] were size "D" battery, then it would resolve to: and the extra quotes will cause only size(space) to display. D" battery" will just be ignored. use to get what you really want. Resolves to: Terry At 2:00 AM -0800 11/15/03, Kenneth Grome Talk wrote: >3- Use an input context around all the webdna tags that populate >your form fields, no matter if the values come from a db or directly >from a form post. It's better to be safe than sorry, and it is >NEVER a bad thing to use input around your form values. When you >always do this for all your form fields (not just the textarea >fields as suggested in the HTML docs) you will never have to worry >about the "wrong characters" messing up the data you expected to >post. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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Re: Pass a form addendum ( Terry Wilson 2003)
An expansion to Ken's guidelines, because we were talking about carriage returns... using [input] in html form fields (and javascripts, and any html tag, such as alt="[something]") as he suggested protects against a value that might contain a single or double QUOTE MARK (depending on which you use in your html). Displaying a quote mark directly will close off the value prematurely. Like so: If [something] were size "D" battery, then it would resolve to: and the extra quotes will cause only size(space) to display. D" battery" will just be ignored. use [input][something][/input]"> to get what you really want. Resolves to: Terry At 2:00 AM -0800 11/15/03, Kenneth Grome Talk wrote: >3- Use an input context around all the webdna tags that populate >your form fields, no matter if the values come from a db or directly >from a form post. It's better to be safe than sorry, and it is >NEVER a bad thing to use input around your form values. When you >always do this for all your form fields (not just the textarea >fields as suggested in the HTML docs) you will never have to worry >about the "wrong characters" messing up the data you expected to >post. ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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