Text Areas

Using Dreamweaver, asp VB.

I'm creating a form that goes to a database. When outputting from the database, what typed into the text area looks nothing like the input. I think it has something to do with the format.

How to i make text areas generate html? As in <Br> break lines. etc...

go to robgt.com and look for the "keep memo formatting" behaviour

James


"ConorS" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Using Dreamweaver, asp VB.

I'm creating a form that goes to a database. When outputting from the
database, what typed into the text area looks nothing like the input. I

think it has something to do with the format.

How to i make text areas generate html? As in <Br> break lines. etc...

Well, roughly...

When you submit the text area to a memo field in Access it DOES store the
breaks, but not as the html code of <br>. If you want to display the text in
another textbox, it should work, but if you want it in a paragraph, use this
line to conver the returns to <br>:
<%=Replace(rs("yourfield"),vbcrlf,"<br>")%>

That should do it.

"ConorS" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

Using Dreamweaver, asp VB.

I'm creating a form that goes to a database. When outputting from the
database, what typed into the text area looks nothing like the input. I

think it has something to do with the format.

How to i make text areas generate html? As in <Br> break lines. etc...

that code is fine, but possibly the user might want to wrap that in and
(if.. then) statement to make sure there are line breaks in the document,
otherwise it will throw and error.

It just won't do any replacing, leaving the original value intact.

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Ron