<pre> / paste-glue / textarea

spectre

Hi,

I need to copy/paste texts form word, notepad... to an html textarea
to store it into a database.

With the <pre>tag, and a text with long lines, the text displayed in
the textarea needs to be scrolled horizontaly within the browser
window: I can't succeed in stopping the text to be larger than the
<table>;<tr>;<t d> settings.

If I use the <p> tag, I don't have any of the line break I had in my
original document and all the text is concateneted.

Thanks to those who can help me to find a solution.

Bi

Jul 23 '05 #1

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Philip Ronan

On 28/9/04 1:54 pm, spectre wrote:

Hi,

I need to copy/paste texts form word, notepad... to an html textarea
to store it into a database.

With the <pre>tag, and a text with long lines, the text displayed in
the textarea needs to be scrolled horizontaly within the browser
window: I can't succeed in stopping the text to be larger than the
<table>;<tr>;<t d> settings.

If you want horizontal scrolling in a text area, add wrap="off" to the
TEXTAREA tag.

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Philip Ronan
ph***********@v irgin.net
(Please remove the "z"s if replying by email)

Jul 23 '05 #2

Mark Tranchant

spectre wrote:

If I use the <p> tag, I don't have any of the line break I had in my
original document and all the text is concateneted.

<p> with <br> in the appropriate places? I don't really understand your
problem.

--
Mark.
http://tranchant.plus.com/

Jul 23 '05 #3

Bruce Lewis

pr***********@y ahoo.fr (spectre) writes:

I need to copy/paste texts form word, notepad... to an html textarea
to store it into a database.
My sympathies. I have to do the same thing.
With the <pre>tag, and a text with long lines, the text displayed in
the textarea needs to be scrolled horizontaly within the browser
window: I can't succeed in stopping the text to be larger than the
<table>;<tr>;<t d> settings.

Use <tt> instead of <pre>, but escape newlines as <br>. I use
(brl-newline-escaper "<br>\n") in my application. PHP has nl2br().
You'll need to do something with server-side programming.

Note that if they paste tables, the columns won't line up. More
sophisticated text-to-html translation would be needed for that.

Also note that you'll get a lot of nonstandard Microsoft characters, for
quotes, etc. I use brl-msft-escape to fix it. You'll need to find
something in your server-side language that does the same thing.
There's a very complete Perl program called the demoronizer, if you're
using Perl.

Jul 23 '05 #4

Pierre Goiffon

"Bruce Lewis" <br*****@yahoo. com> a écrit dans le message de
news:nm******** *****@mint-square.mit.edu

I need to copy/paste texts form word, notepad... to an html textarea
to store it into a database.

(...) but escape newlines as <br>

(...)

If the idea is to save these texts in a database or anywhere else, for cms
purposes, I don't think this would be a good advice to have HTML in your
database records. You should keep datas media independant !

Jul 23 '05 #5

Bruce Lewis

"Pierre Goiffon" <pg******@nowhe re.invalid> writes:

If the idea is to save these texts in a database or anywhere else, for cms
purposes, I don't think this would be a good advice to have HTML in your
database records. You should keep datas media independant !

No, the idea is not to save such text in a database. The escaping is
only for display. You are absolutely correct.

Jul 23 '05 #6

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