Hi Bud, Like Alexander pointed out, most often the absence of the ENCODING="MULTILINEHTML" attribute with your output variable will cause lines to not display with their carriage-returns in HTML.
But, in the case of posting large amounts of text using the <TEXTAREA></TEXTAREA> form element, quite often problems can arise if the WRAP= attribute is not set properly. This is valid property for MSIE HTML and probably most other browsers. You should have something like: <TEXTAREA ROWS="5" COLS="20" NAME="MyText" WRAP="HARD"></TEXTAREA> Possible values for WRAP="SOFT | HARD | OFF" -- SOFT. (Default when WRAP is not included). Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted without carriage returns and line feeds. -- HARD. Text is displayed with wordwrapping and submitted with soft returns and line feeds. --OFF. Wordwrapping is disabled. The lines appear exactly as the user types them. The original text could have been posted with "SOFT" (or the WRAP attribute excluded) which strips out the carriage-returns, so then ENCODING="MULTILINEHTML" won't do anything. Hope this helps. Cheers..... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alexander Zatko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 12:34 PM Subject: RE: Witango-Talk: R:Tango and HTML > Did you try to set ENCODING="multilinehtml"? I vaguelly remember being able > to do this a couple of years ago when still working with FM DB. > > > A. > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Walker, Buddy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Wednesday, October 02, 2002 1:14 PM > > To: Multiple recipients of list witango-talk > > Subject: Witango-Talk: R:Tango and HTML > > > > > > > > > > I'm going to try and explain what I'm doing before I ask my > > question. > > > > We accept applications/payments on line for the medical school. > > > > Every applicant has to fill out a personal statement. This > > statement can > > be any where from 1 paragraph to 40 pages or more long. > > > > More than likely they have this statemment already typed > > using MS Word, > > WordPerfect or what ever. > > > > They can then cut the info from their MS Word/WordPerfect > > and paste it > > into a textarea on the application. > > > > I have no problem with saving the data to the database, > > using a column > > type varchar. This keeps all the hard returns, indents. > > > > Now the applicant has completed the application and wants > > to print a copy. > > When I retrieve the statement and try to display it using > > the HTML pre tag > > it displays the 1st paragraph as one line. In other words > > losing all soft > > returns. > > > > If I leave off the pre it prints out as one long paragraph, no line > > breaks, no indents. > > > > Just wondering if anyone has a workaround for this. > > > > > > Thanks > > > > Buddy > > ______________________________________________________________ > > __________ > > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body > ________________________________________________________________________ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: send a plain text/US ASCII email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe witango-talk in the message body
