HTML/ASP Form Paste

[Andrew Durstewitz]

Hi!

I'm using ASP and HTML for a form. I'm having a major issue with users
copying from MS Word or Work Perfect into my text boxes. What I want to
do is top this with either html, javascript, or asp.

Any ideas?

Andrew J Durstewitz
ASP,ASP.NET Developer

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[Ray at]

I assume you mean stop, not top, and if so, you won't be able to tell the
source of the copied text. What are the issues?

Ray at work

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Hi!

I'm using ASP and HTML for a form. I'm having a major issue with users
copying from MS Word or Work Perfect into my text boxes. What I want to
do is top this with either html, javascript, or asp.

Any ideas?

Andrew J Durstewitz
ASP,ASP.NET Developer

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[Andrew Durstewitz]

People are copying a pasting from word and it crashes the asp engine.
Since a bullet it alot of the time a non-ascii text character when
people copy and past them it kills the sql query. But if I write a
character cleaner it would take too much processor time. That's why I
was looking for a way to do this by just not allowing users to past into
text boxes.

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[Jeff Cochran]

On 03 Dec 2003 20:14:24 GMT, Andrew Durstewitz <ad******@yahoo.com>
wrote:

People are copying a pasting from word and it crashes the asp engine.
Since a bullet it alot of the time a non-ascii text character when
people copy and past them it kills the sql query. But if I write a
character cleaner it would take too much processor time. That's why I
was looking for a way to do this by just not allowing users to past into
text boxes.

It would help to know what you're doing with the pasted text that
causes a crash. I have no issues here, and all I do is escape a few
characters like single quotes.

Jeff

[Andrew Durstewitz]

It's getting inserted into a database.

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[Ray at]

Are you sure it's not just a ' issue. Any character that goes into a
textbox should be fine. Is this a "rich" textbox?

Ray at work

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It's getting inserted into a database.

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[Andrew Durstewitz]

I know it's not a ' issue because of have
Replace(strStuff, "'","''") on all of the text boxes.

I'm wondering if it has anything to do with that I'm running asp on a
ChiliSoft and MySQL. I have orderd new servers from rackspace with
windows 2003. I'm hoping this issue will go away.

Andrew

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[Bhaskardeep Khaund]

Hi,

Why dont you use a Rich-Text box rather than a textarea, like the compose page in Yahoo or Hotmail. It would give more flexibility to the user. And u can form the HTML and store it into the database or in a textfile.

If you need that code let me know.

Bhaskardeep Khaund