how to dispaly text from a text area on a page as page copy (using the replace function)
How do I display this text inside another textarea, holding formatting? All variations of 'what I thought would work' do not.
I am using the following function:
Function DisplayMemo(theText) DisplayMemo = "" on error resume next DisplayMemo = CStr(theText) if (len(DisplayMemo) > 0) Then DisplayMemo = Replace(DisplayMemo, vbCrLf, "<br>", 1, -1, 1) end if End Function
NOTE: getInfo(0) is a variable holding my value. Yes the value is there. It is showing the text I want, however the <br>'s are rendered inside the text area?
I am writing a small database utility to catalog all of my favorite ASM/JS/VBS functions and scripts on an asp page. Everything is going smoothly except for one thing that I can't quite seem to think my way around.
I am using a <textarea> to display the code but some of my scripts have <textarea> tags in them and when the </textarea> tag is entered, it closes my <textarea> and the rest of the code ends up outside of the textarea.
Example: (the code after the middle </textarea> show up outside of the textarea box)
I am able to populate the contents of my textares with employees. However when I view it in the browser (IE 6.0), then I see that the 1st employee is aligned towards the right.
Like this: Code: Emp1 Emp2 Emp3 Emp4 Emp5
How can I ensure that my alignment is is proper? Code:
I made a simple <textarea> , but the problem is, everytime I want to press Enter to break row , I gotta put <BR> .. can I do something that the user can type freely and the ASP will insert <BR> where needed?
I've written several scenarios where the end user needs to enter data into a textarea (descriptions, messges etc) which becomes part of a form. End users often put apostrophe's and carrige returns in the textarea... however, when the code i write is submitted to the database, it generates an sql command from the page that sent the action.
Now, when strange people put carrige returns, it stuffs up the string and therefore produces an error, and to make matters worse if it did recognise a carrige return, it wouldn't be displayed on HTML output. Apostrophes are even worse - they signify the end of a variable in the SQL sentance Can anyone help me and figure out a new way of writing to the DB?
I've got a page on a website I'm developing that contains a textarea. The textarea will allow users of the site to enter a description of an item.
When they submit the form that contains the textarea, the textarea and other form elements data are stored in a database. So far so good.
My problem concerns carriage returns, new lines, line feeds or whatever else you want to call them :-)
I want them preserved, so when the user wants to edit the description of the item, the format of the description is displayed exaclty as it was entered.
The problem is that HTML renders the carriage returns as white space, so when the database is read and the textarea populated with the description field, the carriage returns are lost.
I have tried the ASP REPLACE function to replace carriage returns with <br>, but the code below actually displays all the <br>'s.
I played around with different combinations of chr(13) and vbcrlf and I managed to get the textarea to display the description as it was entered with carriage returns, but upon further testing and editing of the description, because of the REPLACE function, the number of carriage returns was doubling each time!
i have 2 tables one table stores the information for the prof and second table stores information for the subject he teaches so first table deptprof has the id,name,email for the professor
so i get his last name and email which is working second table design is name is deptlist fields are
deptautoid deptid subjectname desc
so one professor might be teaching 3 subjects
so the records in table are
1001 3 maths maths subject is boring
1002 3 science science is good
1003 3 sports make some time for it
so now this page lets the professor update the subject and its desc
so what i do is fill up the subjects and desc he is currently assigned to and then he can change the subjects and desc
subjects have a checkbox and desc has a textarea
what happens is for example a professor has 3 subjects he is teaching now
so 3 checkboxes are selected and all the desc for them are displayed in the textarea
but now the professor decides he wants to teach 4 subjects so he selects the 4th subject checkbox and doesnt enter the desc i want to fire the alert
but it doesnt fire the alert
second way prof is teaching 3 subjects 3 checkboxes are selected and 3 textarea are filled
professor decides to delete desc in one of them and hits submit i want to fire an alert saying he forget desc but it doesnt fire so whenver desc is deleted from the textarea and checkbox for it is selected i want to fire an alert
can someone tell me whats wrong with the code
thanks,
todd
Code:
<%
getid=trim(request.form("id"))
sqlstr = "SELECT *FROM deptprof WHERE ID = '" & getid & "'" Set rsdept = Conn.Execute(sqlstr)
sqldeptdetails = "SELECT *FROM deptlist WHERE deptid = '" & getid & "'" Set rsDetails = Conn.Execute(sqldeptdetails)
%>
<head> <title>Dept List</title> <script type="text/javascript"> <!-- function formCheck(formobj) { var fieldRequired = Array('LName', 'Email'); var fieldDescription = Array('Last Name', 'Email');
var alertMsg = "You can't submit the form until ALL the mandatory fields have been filled out. "; alertMsg += '_________________________________________________ ___
' alertMsg += "Please complete the following fields, then press 'Update dept':
"; var c = 0; for (var i = 0; i < fieldRequired.length; i++) { var obj = formobj.elements[fieldRequired[i]]; document.getElementById(fieldRequired[i]).style.backgroundColor = '#' +'ffffff'; if (obj) { switch(obj.type) { case 'select': if (obj.selectedIndex == -1 || obj.options[obj.selectedIndex].text == '') { alertMsg += ' - ' + fieldDescription[i] + ' '; document.getElementById(fieldRequired[i]).style.backgroundColor = '#' + 'f8e563'; c++; } break; case 'text': case 'textarea': if (obj.value == '' || obj.value == null) { alertMsg += ' - ' + fieldDescription[i] + ' '; document.getElementById(fieldRequired[i]).style.backgroundColor = '#' + 'f8e563'; c++; } break; default: if (obj.value == '' || obj.value == null) { alertMsg += ' - ' + fieldDescription[i] + ' '; document.getElementById(fieldRequired[i]).style.backgroudColor = '#' + 'f8e563'; c++; } } } } alertMsg += ' These fields have been highlighted for your attention.'; if (c == 0) {
var strGroupName="rad1"; var checkedCount=0; for (var i=0; i<document.frm1.elements[strGroupName].length; i++) {
var curBox=document.frm1.elements[strGroupName][i];
if (curBox.checked) {
if (document.frm1.elements["txt"+(i+1)].value=='') {
alertMsg += "Please complete the following fields, then press 'update dept':
"; alertMsg += "You have not entered the value for the "+(i+1)+" Specify desc
<tr class="evenrow"> <td>1.</td> <td><input type="checkbox" name="rad1" value="Maths" <% do while not rs.eof if rsDetails("subjectname") ="Maths" then Response.Write "checked" end if rsDetails.movenext loop rsDetails.movefirst %>
> Maths</td>
<td><textarea name="txt1" id="txt1" rows="2" cols="35"> <% Dim rs1,sqlr1,raexp1 raexp1="Maths"
sqlr1 = "SELECT desc FROM deptlist WHERE deptid = '" & getid & "' and subjectname='" & raexp1 & "'" Set rs1= Conn.Execute(sqlr1)
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Entry 2
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