[WEB4LIB] RE: TEXTAREA rendering

[Thomas Dowling]

At 12:00 PM 2/15/2002, VanderHart, Robert wrote:
>Michael,
>
>I thought the WRAP attribute was no longer in the latest HTML spec, even
>though it does seem to work within the TEXTAREA.  But WRAP still doesn't
>address my question of getting the CR/LF to be rendered once the Submit
>button is clicked.
>
>I will be looking further into Alfred's suggestion of the ColdFusion
>ParagraphFormat function.
>
>Thanks for your reply.
>
>Robert


The wrap attribute has never been part of a formal HTML spec.  While it is 
widely supported, it only addresses which line breaks in the textarea get 
sent to the server as carriage returns/line feeds and which get sent as 
spaces.  But spaces and CRLFs are both just white space to HTML, so if your 
script simply turns the content around and spits it out in an HTML page, 
the results will look the same regardless of the wrap attribute.  Whatever 
the server-side technology, you need it to look for blank lines and 
substitute the appropriate markup.



Thomas Dowling
OhioLINK - Ohio Library and Information Network
tdowling at ohiolink.edu