Add paragraph breaks in textarea

ThunStorm

I have a script that is working but I can't figure out how to add
paragraph breaks into the textarea. Can anyone help me? If you run the
script, the problem will be easier to understand. If possible too, can
you let me know how to run two instances of the drop down box using the
same array.

<script language="JavaS cript">

var teams=new Array()

teams[0]="Karen L. Marlene T. Joyce A. 
Mickey Z.";
teams[1]="Joan T. June G. Alice G. Sandy
B.";
teams[2]="Mary B. Amy S. Carol C. Dee V.";
teams[3]="Bev W. Fran D. Barb F. Gerry B.";
teams[4]="Blind Lynda F. Gail J. Val B.";
teams[5]="Helen N. Sandy S. Pat D. Blind";
teams[6]="Dora F. Yo P. Minnie C. Blind";
teams[7]=" You Must Bowl NO LESS THAN ( <INPUT TYPE=text
NAME=PPG SIZE=2 MAXLENGTH=3> ) To Take A Point Per Game!!!";
teams[8]="Please select a team!"

function changecontent(w hich){
document.ddmess age.contentbox. value=teams[which.selectedI ndex]
}

document.ddmess age.contentbox. value=teams[document.ddmess age.selectbox.s electedIndex]
</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
<td width="100%"><f orm name="ddmessage "><table border="1"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
<td width="100%"><s elect name="selectbox " size="1"
onChange="chang econtent(this)" >
<OPTION>Selec t Team</option>
<OPTION>Alley Cats </option>
<OPTION>Blind </option>
<OPTION>Dreamer s</option>
<OPTION>Lucky Strikes </option>
<OPTION>Morn D. Lites </option>
<OPTION>Pin Pals</option>
<OPTION>Pin Ups</option>
<OPTION>Ups + Downs</option>
</SELECT> 
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%"><t extarea rows="8" name="contentbo x"
cols="35" wrap="virtual"> </textarea> 
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

Mar 9 '06 #1

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RobG

ThunStorm wrote:

I have a script that is working but I can't figure out how to add
paragraph breaks into the textarea. Can anyone help me? If you run the
script, the problem will be easier to understand. If possible too, can
you let me know how to run two instances of the drop down box using the
same array.
Add another select element just like the first.

<script language="JavaS cript">
The language attribute is deprecated, type is required.

<script type="text/javascript">

var teams=new Array()

teams[0]="Karen L. Marlene T. Joyce A. 
Mickey Z.";
When posting code, manually wrap it at about 70 characters to allow for
a couple of quotes without auto-wrapping introducing errors.

textareas contain plain text, HTML in them will be displayed as plain
text. To get new lines, replace with \n.

teams[1]="Joan T. June G. Alice G. Sandy
B.";
teams[2]="Mary B. Amy S. Carol C. Dee V.";
teams[3]="Bev W. Fran D. Barb F. Gerry B.";
teams[4]="Blind Lynda F. Gail J. Val B.";
teams[5]="Helen N. Sandy S. Pat D. Blind";
teams[6]="Dora F. Yo P. Minnie C. Blind";
teams[7]=" You Must Bowl NO LESS THAN ( <INPUT TYPE=text
NAME=PPG SIZE=2 MAXLENGTH=3> ) To Take A Point Per Game!!!";
That isn't going to work even if you fix the wrapping issue.

teams[8]="Please select a team!"

function changecontent(w hich){
document.ddmess age.contentbox. value=teams[which.selectedI ndex]

You could use your 'which' reference to make that a bit shorter:

which.form.cont entbox.value=te ams[which.selectedI ndex];
'which' is a property of the event object in Gecko-based browsers
inherited from old Netscape, you may want to use a different name.
Since it's a reference to a select element, why not 'sel' or similar?

}

document.ddmess age.contentbox. value=teams[document.ddmess age.selectbox.s electedIndex]
You can't get references to document objects that haven't been created
yet, run it from the load event (wrapped for posting):

window.onload = function(){
document.ddmess age.contentbox. value =
teams[document.ddmess age.selectbox.s electedIndex];
}
You should ensure that one option has a selected attribute - user agent
behaviour if no option has a selected attribute is undefined, they may
not all decide to make the same option selected by default.

</script>
</head>
<body>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
<td width="100%"><f orm name="ddmessage "><table border="1"
width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" >
<tr>
<td width="100%"><s elect name="selectbox " size="1"
onChange="chang econtent(this)" >
<OPTION>Selec t Team</option>
<OPTION>Alley Cats </option>
<OPTION>Blind </option>
<OPTION>Dreamer s</option>
<OPTION>Lucky Strikes </option>
<OPTION>Morn D. Lites </option>
<OPTION>Pin Pals</option>
<OPTION>Pin Ups</option>
<OPTION>Ups + Downs</option>
</SELECT> 
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="100%"><t extarea rows="8" name="contentbo x"
cols="35" wrap="virtual"> </textarea> 
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

--
Rob

Mar 9 '06 #2

Dr John Stockton

JRS: In article <11************ **********@p10g 2000cwp.googleg roups.com>
, dated Wed, 8 Mar 2006 17:10:53 remote, seen in
news:comp.lang. javascript, ThunStorm <mo******@hotma il.com> posted :

I have a script that is working but I can't figure out how to add
paragraph breaks into the textarea. Can anyone help me?

F.Code.value = "aa\n\nbb"

And \t may be useful too.

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