I have a form which contains a textarea input, when I request the value of this and display the contents in HTML the carriage returns are gone, so I am trying to find a way to re-insert any carrigage returns.
I have tried using a regular expression with the replace() method to search for a carriage return in a javascript string and replace it with a <br> - but no joy
I thought the following would work (code is in Javascript by the way): Code:
I am using the asp sendmail script from brainjar. But I'm using a text area instead of input field for comments. Is there a function that I should run this thru in order to get it to recoginize carriage returns. Currently it won't send anything after the first carriage return.
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I have a web form with a textbox, when the user presses submit I would like to process the text in the textbox line by line. How can I iterate through it line by line and do something on each line of text?
how I can keep the formatting (carriage returns) that the user enters into a memo field and then display that later. I figured I might be able to use:
'replace carriage returns with BRs
comment=Replace(comment, chr(13), "<br>")
but obviously net.!
The <pre> tag doesn't sem to help either as the embedded return is lost by the time you get past Request.Form
I am using asp to retrieve data from an SQL Server database and display it on a web page. The data in the database has been formatted using multiple carriage returns however, when the data is displayed on the page these carriage returns are lost.
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blank pages on the fax machine.
I am using asp to retrieve data from an SQL Server database and display it on a web page. The data in the database has been formatted using multiple carriage returns however, when the data is displayed on the page these carriage returns are lost. Does anyone know a way around this problem?
View Replies View RelatedI have a text box that a user is allowed to enter what ever text they wish. I then take the text store it in a Database, and at a later time print it in a document. All that part I have done.
The problem I'm having is I have a client that hits return at the end of their last sentance. When this prints on the document, it sometimes causes an extra blank page to be produced to account for the last carriage return, depending on how much text they have entered.
What I'm looking to do is take out any whitespace or un-needed carriage returns at the end of the string.
If I want to remove x-amount of trailing carriage returns from a string in ASP (ie, someone has entered text into a text area and left a few carriage returns) - what's the easiest way to do this?
Trim() only removes white space
Also, I don't want to remove carriage returns within the main body of submitted text.
Any ideas if there's an easy way to do this?
I have a textarea that is being sent to email using an asp code to process the form.
strBody = strBody & "<br><br><b>Resume: </b><br>" & Request.Form("resume")
I want to keep the carriage returns for the textarea. How can I do that using the Request.Form?
Is there a way to detect if the user has placed two returns in a form field for example as below:- This is a short paragraph This is the second paragraph
And automatically add the surrounding <p></p> tags on inserting this into the database. Same with the edit of pages. Rather than showing the <p></p> in the form is there a way to just apply the paragraphs for the user to visually see thus preventing code in the form window?
I am using an HTML form and creating a tabbed text file with the .xls extention.
only problem remaining is when multi-line text area is used the user might press 'return' to create new line in the text area but this also creates a new row in Excel.
what's the best way to replace the 'return' in the form data with the little rectangle that Excel uses to create a carriage return inside a cell?
I have this problem in controlling a the text in a Text Area. How can I do
that for example the field size is 200, when it reaches 50 it automatically
goes to the next line. Bcoz im having problem when viewing it in my report,
it continuesly views in a strieght line and im having problem in printing.
I have a text area which I want to limit the number of words or number of text entered into it. Is this possible?
<textarea name="textarea" cols="35" rows="5"></textarea>
In the text area above, can I say limit the person filling in the text area to say 100 characters?
I have this problem in controlling a text in a Text Area. How can I do that, for example the field size is 200, when it reaches 50 it automatically goes to the next line. Because im having problem when viewing text in my report, it continuesly views in a straight line. Can you give me ASP code for that.
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The text file contents to be pasted would be in the format:
1234, Y
1235, N
1236, Y
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Can anyone help me format text in a text area using ASP? I am bringing in data from a database and need to format headers for the data. Is there anyway to format this in a text area using ASP?
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line2: text2
etc.
But in ASP it looks like this:
line1: text1 text2
What the hell is this now
I'm having a complete brain cramp today. I've written a form that displays information based on content in a database. Can someone tell me what's wrong with my code to display the data in a textarea?
Code:
<textarea name="AdditionalInformation" cols="32" rows="10" wrap="VIRTUAL"><%=(UpdateRecruiting.Fields.Item("cs_additionalinformation").Value)%></textarea>
How do I set the max length of a text area. Say, only 200 char.
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useing asp this works fine but the formatting is all over the shop I have looked on the net and can't seem to find anything that formats a textarea any ideas????
how to replace carriage return upon extracting text from Access file.
However I think it will be smarter to do it before (during) inserting text into acess file.
It might be primitive question, but I started my ASP learning just last week and many things are confusing me on this stage.
QUESTION:
What should I change in my ASP file code (file inserted data from the HTML form file into database file) to replace all carriage returns and line brakes during inserting text into field GuestSory? Code:
How to disable a select element via vbscript from another element in the same form. I want to disable a text area element named xptoTextArea if and only if a certain option value is selected.
If this option is selected then disable this text area element.
I have a text area in my asp page:
"code"
<textarea name="content" rows=10 cols=60>
</textarea>
"end of code"
Is there any way to fill the text area with the value of a variable?]
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Is it possible to have, first n number of charectors in a text area in one
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I want to write a asp script, basically, that has drop down box in the form, if user select Yes, on the same page, a hidden textarea will show up, if user select No,
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Am trying to restrict user from entering non ASCII character in the text area. Say if the user entered non ASCII character then on the form post back it should show them the message like:
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I have a radio button, a check box and a text box in a web page. From this page, I go to a series of other pages. In one of the following webpages I am providing an option to come back to the first page which has the radio button, check box and the text box.
When doing so, I need to retain the values I originally checked in teh radio button and the text box, and also the text in the text box. I understand that I need to carry it through a session variable, but I dont know how I can do it.
am trying to make a carriage return of the following:
Mailer.BodyText = "From: " & Request.Form("FRM") & VbCrLf & VbCrLf & "Message: " & Request.Form("MSG")
but it doesnt work.
when i received the email on my mailbox, the format is all in one line, like this:
From: John Message: Test message only
but i would like the "Message:" to appear in the second line.
This code doesn't give me a carriage return.Why?
strEmailMess= "Name: " & strName &vbCrLf
strEmailMess= strEmailMess & "Email Address: " & strEmailUser &vbCrLf
Also this code takes user to aspemail.asp page.I want it to go to a page of my chosing, like www.newpage.com
If MyMail.Send Then
Response.Write("Message Sent With ASPEMail.<br />")
Else
Response.Write("Message Not Sent With ASPEMail.<br />")
End If
how can i get this to work? trying to get carridge returns display in the output:
strBody = strBody & "<td width=550><font class='data3'>" & Request.Form("subject"),VBCrLf, "<br />"