Textarea and tabs - Javascript

Kent

Hi all,
Thank you in advance. Here is the issue: I need to create a page that
allows users to copy the contents of a MS Word document and paste them
into a textarea. All fine and dandy...but the tabs. I don't need to
keep the formatting, just the tabs. Is there any way to detect the tabs
and change them to four spaces or something similar? If you have any
other ideas please let me know.

Thanks again for your help,
Kent

The email address is valid and I do check it.

Oct 12 '05 #1

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juglesh

Kent wrote:

Hi all,
Thank you in advance. Here is the issue: I need to create a page that
allows users to copy the contents of a MS Word document and paste them
into a textarea. All fine and dandy...but the tabs. I don't need to
keep the formatting, just the tabs. Is there any way to detect the tabs
and change them to four spaces or something similar? If you have any
other ideas please let me know.

what happens to this stuff when then user submits? goes to a php
script? then what?

you might try to use http://www.fckeditor.net/ as it does have a 'paste
word' thing that might be able to keep the tabs.

--
j

Oct 12 '05 #2

RobG

Kent wrote:

Hi all,
Thank you in advance. Here is the issue: I need to create a page that
allows users to copy the contents of a MS Word document and paste them
into a textarea. All fine and dandy...but the tabs. I don't need to
keep the formatting, just the tabs. Is there any way to detect the tabs
and change them to four spaces or something similar? If you have any
other ideas please let me know.

Thanks again for your help,
Kent

The email address is valid and I do check it.

Tabs are retained in the textarea when the text is pasted. encodeURI
(or 'escape' for old browsers) will replace tabs with %09 - but that
will happen anyway when the form is submitted.

<textarea onchange="alert(encodeURI(this.value))"></textarea>

decodeURI/unescape (or equivalent on your server) will restore the tabs.

--
Rob

Oct 13 '05 #3

Bart Van der Donck

Kent wrote:

Here is the issue: I need to create a page that
allows users to copy the contents of a MS Word
document and paste them into a textarea. All
fine and dandy...but the tabs. I don't need to
keep the formatting, just the tabs. Is there any
way to detect the tabs and change them to four
spaces or something similar?

This will replace tabs by 4 spaces before submitting:

<html>
<body>
<form onsubmit="
document.forms[0].i.value =
document.forms[0].i.value.replace(/\t/g,' ');
// alert(document.forms[0].i.value);
return true;"
action="script.php">

<textarea name="i" rows="20" cols="60">
[paste content from WORD here]
</textarea>
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>

--
Bart

Oct 13 '05 #4

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