Thanks terry. Good tip. I never thought to use the fckeditor.
On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Terry Troxel <[email protected]>wrote: > > You just might try Fckeditor for your text datatype entries > as it has Paste from word which strips all the various MS formatting. > You can modify the menubar to only include the Controls that are needed. > > Terry > > -----Original Message----- > From: Monique Boea [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:34 AM > To: cf-talk > Subject: Re: Formatting the output of a text datatype > > > Ok thanks! > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Michael Grant > To: cf-talk > Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 10:16 AM > Subject: Re: Formatting the output of a text datatype > > > > For display you could try <pre></pre> which should preserve your line > breaks > at least. It's been a while since I've used it so I'm unsure of it's > limitations. You could also try replacing chr(10) & chr(13) with <br> to > create html line breaks. As far as the strange characters it's probably > the > weird open and close quotes etc that word uses. There's probably a regex > out > there for doing the reformatting. > > On Sat, Nov 6, 2010 at 9:40 AM, Monique Boea <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > hello > > > > I am working on a app where users input their resumes. > > > > I am using a TEXT datatype for some of my fields for large areas of text > > i.e. Career Summary. > > > > The problem is when I output the text, there is not formatting to it and > it > > looks like a large jumbled block of text. > > > > Some of the user cut and paste from Word, so there are strange > characters > > in the data also. > > > > What is the best practice for storing and outputting large bodies of > text? > > > > Thank you. > > > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:338917 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
