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Topic: show textarea line breaks after a post

Posted By: RCorr
Subject: show textarea line breaks after a post
Date Posted: 27 November 2003 at 9:32am

Hello,

I am designing a job-posting site and when the user fills in the application form and clicks submit an email is sent out. I have two text area tags that require the user to paste his/her cover letter and resume. When the email is received, the line breaks are ignored and therefore the outcome doesn't look pretty.

I am aware there are sites where one can preview what his or her cover letter and resume will look like one the receiving end. Does anyone know the steps I need to take or a third party program that format the information?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

RCorr

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Posted By: theSCIENTIST
Date Posted: 28 November 2003 at 6:31am

You can do it in two ways:

On the receiving end, use the <PRE> ... </PRE> that will show everything formatted as it was submitted.
You can also parse the user input before it goes to the database, and replace the default (vbCrLf) by <BR>, do it like this: parsedRESUME = Replace(parsedRESUME, vbCrLf, "<BR>", 1, -1, 1) .. Don't forget to reverse the process for editing.

With the second approach I used the Replace ASP function, not sure which scripting you are using.