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Formatting a editbox input to html

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Topic: Formatting a editbox input to html

Posted By: stDeaReG
Subject: Formatting a editbox input to html
Date Posted: 04 June 2003 at 7:47am

I'm completely stuck on this. I'm trying to build a forum and I use a editbox for users to enter their messages in. Now when I post this to my access database it gets inserted correctly with the lines seperate. However when I load the post on my asp page it is one long line without using the formatting.

Now I guess somehow I have to insert a html tag like in the database, but I can't seem to figure out how to make the code replace all "enters" with in the database.

Help me! , TIA.

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Posted By: Scotty32
Date Posted: 04 June 2003 at 7:53am

use the

replace(string, vbcrlf," ")

you might also want to stop people using HTML and use Formatting like this forum uses (look at the Forum Codes for examples)

just change the above to...

replace(string, "[i]", "")

so when ever sum one types "[i]" it will make there text Italic

*edit*

sorry forgot to say...

the code above would be used like this

<%
dim sting
string = request.form("TextArea") 'this is your Form Field

string = replace(string, vbcrlf, " ")

......rest of your code for adding to the database here....

%>

Posted By: stDeaReG
Date Posted: 04 June 2003 at 10:13am

Thanks bunches, works like a charm

Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 04 June 2003 at 10:35am

as said above.. beware allowing people to enter straight up HTML.... they can put some nasty javascript in there or even as something stupid as just </table> which will totally screw up your layout

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Posted By: ljamal
Date Posted: 04 June 2003 at 9:03pm

If you are not going to allow HTML then I would just create a function to remove all HTML.

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Posted By: stDeaReG
Date Posted: 05 June 2003 at 5:23am

actually I'm making it so i don't allow certain things, for instance javascript, tables, body, etc.

I do want people to allow the use of font and stuff on there so.
Also just added 64 smileys. hehehe