Re: Witango-Talk: storing < and > w/ witango

[Atrix Wolfe]

i discovered what the problem was.

it was actualy being stored correctly in the database, it was just when it
was displaying the text in the textarea that it had problems so i set that
to encoding=none.  I also had to set it to encoding=sql when i put the text
into the database because it didnt like quotes.

thanx for your help!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jesse Parker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Multiple recipients of list witango-talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2003 4:46 PM
Subject: Re: Witango-Talk: storing < and > w/ witango


> Tango should get this right if you don't stipulate encoding, like this:
>
> <textarea><@COLUMN my_col></textarea>
>
> Like this (in a Results action) Tango should do HTML encoding, converting
> "<" to "&lt;", etc.  This is how the value must be escaped.  If the value
> contains "</textarea>" you want Tango to change this into
> "&lt;/textarea&gt;" and it should do this automatically.  The browser
> should render (un-escape) the contents of the textarea properly and show
> "</textarea>".
>
> Also, make sure the value you update the database with stipulates
> ENCODING=NONE, because you don't want to store an escaped value.
>
> Things are complicated if you're storing all this HTML in a variable
> first.  Then you run into a problem because Tango doesn't (to my
> knowledge) have a name for "HTML" encoding, so you can't ask for it by
> name like the other encodings.
>
> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Atrix Wolfe wrote:
>
> > hello, i have a problem im trying to solve.
> >
> > I have a form with a textarea where a user enters some text, then they
click Update and it takes that text and stores it in the database and brings
them right back to the form (re-selecting and displaying their text from the
database).  The problem im having is that it turns < and > into &lt and &gt.
if i update again, it turns &lt to &amp;&lt; and &gt to &amp;&gt;.  Ive
tried various encoding= settings (including none!) but nothing seems to let
a < remain a <.
> >
> > Anyone know how to do this?
> >
> > Thanx!
> > -Atrix
>
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