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Topic: New lines

Posted By: Scott07
Subject: New lines
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 9:43am

How do you make it so that you have a normal <TEXTAREA> box and the code will check to see if there are any new lines (as in

this). What I am trying to get it to do is to convert all the HTML codes as in <,> ect into the & codes so people cant write HTML code but keep the new lines so if they put more than one paragraph in the spacing isent lost. How you get what I am battering on about.

Any help would be much appriciated, thanks.

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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 11:28am

are you letting people do and and (and also ), or are you just trying to catch when they hit "enter" (creating a vbCrlf in the data), or both?

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Posted By: Scott07
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 2:28pm

so it only reconises when someone hits return but will reject 

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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 4:05pm

then there's two avenues you can take, with difference in the front end processing and resultant storage, but the same on display

1)
- Server.HTMLEncode the textarea's contents on the way in, all "returns" entered in the textarea are "vbCrlf"'s not tags, so the encoding will leave the line breaks alone
- On the way to display, Replace(string,vbCrlf," ") and line breaks work, but enterted HTML doesn't

2) (and the way i do/recommend it)
- Simply save the contents of the entered text (of course escaping the signle tics if needed)
- On the way out, do the Server.HTMLEncode on the field, then afterwards do a Replace(string,vbCrlf," ")
- Since the replace of the line breaks happens after the encoding, the tag will properly evaluate, while all user types HTML tags get "escaped" and show <tag>

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Posted By: MorningZ
Date Posted: 05 March 2003 at 4:15pm

a la

http://www.morningz.com/sections/playground/files/code/lineBreaks.asp - this example i threw together for ya

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