[WEB4LIB] RE: TEXTAREA rendering

[Luc Grondin]

Hello!

As a simple solution to this kind of problem, what I have done so far is
output inside <pre>...</pre> the content entered in the textarea (in
combination with the use of a "wrap" attribute in the form).

This may be enough for your needs...

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  Luc Grondin
  Analyste en gestion de l'information numérique
  SERTI - DGTIC, Université de Montréal
  téléphone: (514) 343-6111 p. 3988  -  télécopieur: (514) 343-2155

> -----Message d'origine-----
> De : web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]De la part de Thomas Bennett
> Envoyé : 15 février, 2002 12:46
> À : Multiple recipients of list
> Objet : [WEB4LIB] RE: TEXTAREA rendering
>
>
> Not having used Cold Fusion, can you run the form data for that
> form element
> through a script before it goes into the database to do a search and
> replace.  I do this in Zope to escape the ' and change it to \'
> because the
> data terminates at the first apostrophe it finds, if any, when it
> goes into
> the database.
>
> Thomas
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: web4lib at webjunction.org
> [mailto:web4lib at webjunction.org]On Behalf Of VanderHart, Robert
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:55 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list
> Subject: [WEB4LIB] TEXTAREA rendering
>
>
> Good morning,
>
> I'm developing a web form so our staff members can author meeting minute.
> The form consists of several TEXTAREA elements for individual paragraphs.
> When the form is submitted, the rendered minutes appear on the
> next screen.
> You can see the form at
> http://library.umassmed.edu/~rvanderh/minutemanager.cfm.
>
> I would like to have one large TEXTAREA element for the "body" of the
> minutes, so that when you press Enter the equivalent of the BR element is
> inserted.  Right now when you press Enter in the TEXTAREA it's ignored and
> does not render, so I have to use the much-less elegant method of
> a separate
> TEXTAREA for each paragraph.  Since I don't want to require our staff to
> know any HTML to use this form, such as typing BR or P to make a new
> paragraph, I'm wondering if there is any way to make paragraphs
> render from
> a single TEXTAREA?
>
>
> Robert J. Vander Hart
> Electronic Resources Librarian
> The Lamar Soutter Library
> University of Massachusetts Medical School
> 55 Lake Avenue N
> Worcester  MA  01655
>
> Voice: (508) 856-3290
> Fax: (508) 856-5899
> Email: Robert.VanderHart at umassmed.edu
> Web: http://library.umassmed.edu
>