Re: Displaying text and populating form fields
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
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texte = eLists wrote: > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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eLists wrote: > 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/ ------------------------------------------------------------- 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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