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dakin01

Subject: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-23, 09:38am

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I'm working on some code for an administration page for an e-mail my company sends out. The people who are goint to be updating this don't know HTML, but in order to output the text with the right formating the text has to have some html code. Is there anyway to make a text box automatically insert a < br > tag when someone pushes the enter key on the keyboard? Or does anyone know of any other ways to do this? If anyone can help that would be great.

Thanks
Andy

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misterhaan

Subject: Re: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-23, 10:06am

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yes there is a way to do this. well actually it changes to <br> when you click the submit button on the form. just put an onclick in there and point it to the javascript that i will post once i find it . . .

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misterhaan

Subject: Re: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-23, 10:46am

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crap sorry i don't seem to have it anymore. basically you just look for "\r\n", then "\r", then "\n", each time replacing with "<br>"
you'd probably be doing this with the value of a textbox.

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misterhaan

Subject: Re: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-23, 10:52am

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hey, i found it after all:

Code:

function replaceChar(base, rid, add) {
for (var p = base.indexOf(rid); p > -1; p = base.indexOf(rid))
base = base.substring(0, p) + add + base.substring(p + rid.length);
return base;
}

put this for your onclick on the submit button: javascript:document.formname.textareaname.value = replaceChar(document.formname.textareaname.value, '\n', '<br />');

this only worries about the \n though, but that doesn't matter.

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dakin01

Subject: Thank you · Posted: 2003-10-27, 09:29am

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Thanks thats exactly what I was looking for. Sorry that I didn't reply earlier, but I've had a busy couple days here. Once again thanks a lot.

Andy

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misterhaan

Subject: Re: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-27, 10:52am

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no problem--glad it worked for you!

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dakin01

Subject: Am I doing this right? · Posted: 2003-10-28, 09:00am

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OK I'm probably just being stupid (especially since I really don't do much with javascript), but am I putting this in right, because I can't seem to get it to work.

Code:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<script language="JavaScript">
function replaceChar(base, rid, add) {
for (var p = base.indexOf(rid); p > -1; p = base.indexOf(rid))
base = base.substring(0, p) + add + base.substring(p + rid.length);
return base;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form method="post" name="form1" action="<cfoutput>#CurrentPage#</cfoutput>">
<table align="center">
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">Title:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="title" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right" valign="top">Body:</td>
<td>
<textarea name="body" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea>
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">Date:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="date" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">IssueNo:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="IssueNo" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right">SortNo:</td>
<td><input type="text" name="SortNo" value="" size="32">
</td>
</tr>
<tr valign="baseline">
<td nowrap align="right"> </td>
<td><input type="submit" value="Insert Record" onclick="javascript:document.formname.textareaname.value = replaceChar(document.formname.textareaname.value, '\n', '
');">
</td>
</tr>
</table>
<input type="hidden" name="MM_InsertRecord" value="form1">
</form>
<p> </p>
</body>
</html>

Thanks for the help

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misterhaan

Subject: Re: No Subject · Posted: 2003-10-28, 09:52am

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you have to actually replace formname and textareaname with the names you specified in your html. for this example, formname -> form1 and textareaname -> body.
should have pointed that out--sorry

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dakin01

Subject: Thankyou · Posted: 2003-10-28, 10:13am

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No you shouldn't have had to point that out, I should have noticed that. I think ColdFusion has burnt my brain. Oh well. Once again Thanks.

Andy

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