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Topic: Can you use RTE on same page with different forms

Posted By: julia444
Subject: Can you use RTE on same page with different forms
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 12:14am

I have an asp page which is for a news weblog. the way it is designed is that all the different views available are on one long page. There are 2 views, for an article to show. At the bottom of both is a form called "frm3" which is for posting comments. This form has a text area to which i added the RTE (see below)

On the same page, the same code below needs to be repeated. i copied and pasted it, but it returns an error on the public side. It only works if i use it in one form.

I need to be able to use it in both forms. Both are identical, and only one can be used at a time, as the article is either showing one or the other on the public side. But i think the server reads the whole page and sees 2 RTE's

How do i solve this problem? . I'm not html literate, so Thanks in advance for any help

<% IF blLOGGED_IN = True THEN %>

          <br /><br />
<body OnLoad="initialiseWebWizRTE();">
        <table width="430" bgcolor="yellow" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0" ><tr>
         <td style="padding: 20px;">Membership details may be edited on next page.<br />
             <br />



          <table align="center" width="400" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" border="0">
          <form action="_comments.asp?ID=<%=NID%>" method="post" name="frm3" id="frm3" onSubmit="return ValidateComment()">
          <tr>
           <td width="100">Name</td>
           <td width="300"><%=Session("PMMS_USERNAME")%></td>
          </tr><tr>
           <td>Country</td>
           <td width="300"><%=Session("PMMS_COUNTRY")%></td>
          </tr><tr>
           <td>*Subject</td>

           <td width="300"><input type="Text" name="subject" value="" maxlength="50" class="textbox" style="width: 100%"></td>
          </tr><tr>




     <%

'Declare the ASP variables used
Dim strFormName
Dim strTextAreaName

'ID tag name of the HTML form the textarea is within
strFormName = "frm3"

'ID tag name of HTML textarea being replaced
strTextAreaName = "comment"

%>



  <td valign="top">*Comment</td>
            <td width="300"> 
 <textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="6" cols="50" style="width: 100%;" class="textbox"></textarea>


           <input type="Checkbox" name="allowE" value="1" />
           receive emails from readers</td>
          </tr><tr>
           <td></td>
           <td><input type="Submit" value="Add Comment" /></td>
          </tr>
          <input type="Hidden" name="mode" value="set" /></form>
          </table>
          <br /><br />
          <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr>
           <td>* - these fields are mandatory.</td>
                  </tr></table>
          <br /><br />         </td>
        </tr></table>

Replies:

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 7:50am

You can only apply the RTE to one textarea on a page.

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Posted By: julia444
Date Posted: 23 May 2007 at 8:11am

-boRg- wrote:

You can only apply the RTE to one textarea on a page.

Hi BoRg

but they don't show at the same time, ie. people will either see one or the other,

If this is still impossible, then how do you get around this? I'm sure there are others with the same problem

Thank you for your help.

Posted By: julia444
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 7:53am

Can someone please reply the query above?

I have a webpage on which i will use this, an ASP page, it's coded as follows:

An asp with a news article drawn from a database. There is a comments system at the bottom. You have to be logged in to post comments. There are 2 different layouts on the page, but only one shows at any one time. I want to add the RTE to both, but they will only ever show one depending on which page the article template is.

Can i add the code twice to the same page for this reason?

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 8:02am

If both RTE enabled textarea's are sent to the client browser it wouldn't work. If you use server side code to send only one RTE enabled textarea to the client browser it will work.

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Posted By: julia444
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 8:18am

Borg

Thank you for replying. I'm not sure though, as i'm not html literate. Can you tell from the code below if it is server side? I did try adding the below to the other part in the webpage i think and it didn't work or something, but i'm willing to give it another shot, if someone can recommend something. I chose WEb wiz, because its ASP too. I only need a very simple RTE.

Here is the section of the page where it is used, and the other part is the same, only on a different template. Depending on which template the news article was posted from the database, one or the other will show.

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'Declare the ASP variables used
Dim strFormName
Dim strTextAreaName

'ID tag name of the HTML form the textarea is within
strFormName = "frm3"

'ID tag name of HTML textarea being replaced
strTextAreaName = "comment"

%>



  <td valign="top">*Comment</td>
            <td width="300"> 
 <textarea name="comment" id="comment" rows="6" cols="50" style="width: 100%;" class="textbox"></textarea>


           <input type="Checkbox" name="allowE" value="1" />
           receive emails from readers</td>
          </tr><tr>
           <td></td>
           <td><input type="Submit" value="Add Comment" /></td>
          </tr>
          <input type="Hidden" name="mode" value="set" /></form>
          </table>
          <br /><br />
          <table cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr>
           <td>* - these fields are mandatory.</td>
           <td align="right"><a href=" http://www.website.asp?logout=True - http://www.website.asp?logout=True " target="_top">Click here to log out.</a></td>

          </tr></table>
   </td>

      <% ELSE%>

Posted By: WebWiz-Bruce
Date Posted: 27 July 2007 at 8:38am

The simply way to tell, in your browser if you do a view source of the page does it show both RTE enabled textarea?

If not then it is not sending both to the client browser and you are handling the response sent to the client server side.

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