Hi Norman, Thanks for your reply. Entering blank lines directly in the <textarea> ... </textarea> makes perfect sense. As regards reducing the inordinate amount of preceding and trailing hyphens, thanks for confirming that it's not as trivial as it seems. I thought I was missing something obvious but your explanation makes plain the fact that it is too much work to fix a purely cosmetic issue, client-side.
Note to Ipswitch: Unless it's just me -- or rather my users --, could you kindly consider putting five hyphens before and after the "Original Message" separator string in a future release, � la Outlook? Once again, thanks for your response, Guy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Norman J. Nolasco" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 4:15 PM Subject: RE: [IMail Forum] Inserting blank lines when replying or forwarding-with-edit > To put line breaks in a textarea, you don't have to use 
. Just put the > line breaks into the template normally. > > For example, > > <textarea> > > > > > stuff > </textarea> > > will put about 4 or 5 line breaks before "stuff" in the textarea. > > AFAIK, the only way to remove the hyphens is through Javascript. You can't > take them out before they are rendered. You have to take them out after > they > are rendered (on the client using javascript... or some other client-side > browser code). > > How? Well, you can put the <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyForward--> tag inside a > hidden textarea and parse it out from there or use a separate XML page > to load up the message body first. Then use the XMLDOM object to load it > into a JavaScript variable (or other client side code variable). The only > problem is that XMLDOM doesn't fully support ISO-8864 (or something like > that... > meaning certain special characters)... and the "textarea" method won't work > for certain HTML formatted emails. > > Personally, it's too much trouble. I'd tell your customer that it's either > going to cost A LOT to remove those hyphens or tell a white lie and say > it's impossible. > > -Norm > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Guy Isabel > Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 2:54 PM > To: IMail Forum > Subject: [IMail Forum] Inserting blank lines when replying or > forwarding-with-edit > > > Greetings, > > I just upgraded IMail from 7.04 to 7.07 (with new Web templates) and I find > that a seemingly trivial customization I had made to the 7.04 templates does > not work anymore. The underlying rationale is that users wish to have a few > blank lines preceding the separator line ("Original Message") in which to > start composing text. The default behavior of the stock Ipswitch templates > forces them to position the cursor at the very beginning of the text area > and hit <Enter> a few times. > > At these users' request, I had added five " " before the > <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyForward--></textarea> and > <!--IMAIL.MessageBodyReply--></textarea> tags in files FWDMSG1.HTML and > REPLYMSG1.HTML respectively. This doesn't work in 7.07, even if I use <br> > or <p> as these HTML tags show up literally rather than performing their > expected function. Moreover, I also want to trim the lengthy string of > hyphens preceding and following the "Original Message" separator line and am > at a loss to find out where this is "hard-coded". > > Any help gratefully received! > > Guy > -- > Guy Isabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ > > > Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > to be removed from this list. > > An Archive of this list is available at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > > Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked > questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
