Formatting parragraphs in text_are

[alanwallace]

Hi All,

I am a newby and a silver surfer and wander if anyone can give ma a hand.
I am installing a double drop box on a friens website and have hit a problem. I can not find a way to format parragraphs in the text box. This is one of the Text_area that I need to alter.

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text_array[1] = new Array("DIAMOND SBS / TD UNDERLAY / INSULATION, 15 Year Guarantee - System-11, 20 Year Guarantee - System-2",
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You can see the drop box at http://www.europolymers-gb.com/eb-we...of-design.html.
I would like the display to look like this:

DIAMOND SBS / TD UNDERLAY / INSULATION
15 Year Guarantee - System-1
20 Year Guarantee - System-2.
instead of like this:

DIAMOND SBS / TD UNDERLAY / INSULATION 15 Year Guarantee - System-1 20 Year Guarantee - System-2.

Can you Help
Silver Surfer

[mrhoo]

return the array as a string of text joined by newlines, and set your textarea style to preserve the whitespaces

in your stylesheet:
#textareaname{white-space:pre}

writing to the textarea:
textareaname.value= text_array[1].join('\n')

[alanwallace]

Sorry for my ignorance but I didn't understand a word of that. The script did not come with a stylesheet. Is there a tutorial on this anywhere?
Silver Surfer

[acoder]

Are you not using stylesheets on the page? (The page link that you gave doesn't exist).

You can set the style using javascript:

textareaObj.style.whiteSpace='pre';

where textareaObj is the ID to your textarea.