Thanks James, When you say processing submitted text to remove Word formatting, what exactly is involved? I often use the Clean up Word HTML function in Dreamweaver but not quite sure how to do it in CF.
Regards, Razeen. -----Original Message----- From: James Eberhardt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:05 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [CFTALKTor] Controlling font for memo field I have run into this problem in a slightly different scenario. What I have done is process the submitted text, removing any unwanted formatting that get inherited from Word. This also means watching out for those nasty special Word characters, like bullets, em-dashes, and quotation marks; all of which will show up incorrectly in some browsers. If your users have a tendancy to use really bizarre characters, that are way up in the extended character set, you can also inform them that in order to reduce problems, they should do all their editing in Word using a font with a limited character set, such as Courier, which has a limited number of characters. It may look worse to them, but it will save some headaches for you. Another option is to have them do a two-step process, by having them cut and paste into another program, like Notepad or Wordpad. This will have other side effects though. When pasting into Notepad, the user will lose any BOLD, ITALIC, UNDERLINE, etc... I wanted to allow this type of formatting to be persistent, so Notepad did not work for me. Hope some of these ideas help. James Eberhardt -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Davids Razeen Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 7:23 AM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: [CFTALKTor] Controlling font for memo field Hi, I use Activedit instead of a textarea field for users to enter articles which are then later displayed. The default font for this form field is set to Verdana. My problem is users who cut and paste from Word or elsewhere and so include formatting with other font faces and sizes. Any ideas of how to get around this? - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: "James Eberhardt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net) - You are subscribed to the CFUGToronto CFTALK ListSRV. This message has been posted by: Davids Razeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To Unsubscribe, Please Visit and Login to http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ Manager: Kevin Towes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.CFUGToronto.org/ This System has been donated by Infopreneur, Inc. (http://www.infopreneur.net)
