Re: Chat and textarea formatting

2023-02-16 Thread Richard Gaskin via use-livecode
Rick Harrison wrote: > Richard wrote: >> I find that a lot of this boils down to the Clipboard more >> than a browser being able to know what it's rendering. .. > When I copy colored text or bold faced text > from TextEdit and pasted it into the box it > doesn’t carry over. > > Of course if I cop

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

2023-02-16 Thread harrison--- via use-livecode
Hi Richard, Thanks for the better example code. When I copy colored text or bold faced text from TextEdit and pasted it into the box it doesn’t carry over. Of course if I copy the one sample line you provided that copies fine and renders fine. I also tried creating some text with bold and color

Re: Chat and textarea formatting

2023-02-16 Thread Alex Tweedly via use-livecode
Of course, the other option - depending on your timescale (and maybe your license) - would be to build it as a LC app, and then 'build for web'. That way you'd have control over the formatting options you want to allow/provide. Alex P.S. but then, I'm strongly averse to any use of JS, HTML,