Re: Displaying text and populating form fields
This WebDNA talk-list message is from 2005
It keeps the original formatting.
numero = 61176
interpreted = N
texte = >on 2/23/2005 1:30 pm, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@euca.us so noted... > >> as well as it doesn't protect against when someone goes to edit formerlly >> textarea input (input with carraige returns) in a hidden form field. > >As an aside, I've a CMS that's been used for the last five years with a >variety of Mac and PC users on various browsers. It passes textarea-entered >data with plain, unescaped, drop-to-the-next-line line breaks using hidden >form fields across multiple pages without any problems. That's because the data is initially entered by the visitor into a textarea field which can pass line break characters, and you're continuing to pass the data via hidden form fields which can *also* pass line break characters. If you switched from hidden fields to text fields when passing your data you would immediately learn that everything after the first line break character will be lost, because text fields cannot pass line break characters or anything that follows a line break character. Of course you're not going to do this, I'm only saying this to illustrate a point, and my point is this: Hidden fields and textarea fields work exactly the same, except that one is editable by the visitor and one is not. It's the text fields that cannot pass line break characters, and this is what creates the problem ... -- Sincerely, Kenneth Grome www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list
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>on 2/23/2005 1:30 pm, Donovan Brooke at dbrooke@euca.us so noted... > >> as well as it doesn't protect against when someone goes to edit formerlly >> textarea input (input with carraige returns) in a hidden form field. > >As an aside, I've a CMS that's been used for the last five years with a >variety of Mac and PC users on various browsers. It passes textarea-entered >data with plain, unescaped, drop-to-the-next-line line breaks using hidden >form fields across multiple pages without any problems. That's because the data is initially entered by the visitor into a textarea field which can pass line break characters, and you're continuing to pass the data via hidden form fields which can *also* pass line break characters. If you switched from hidden fields to text fields when passing your data you would immediately learn that everything after the first line break character will be lost, because text fields cannot pass line break characters or anything that follows a line break character. Of course you're not going to do this, I'm only saying this to illustrate a point, and my point is this: Hidden fields and textarea fields work exactly the same, except that one is editable by the visitor and one is not. It's the text fields that cannot pass line break characters, and this is what creates the problem ... -- Sincerely, Kenneth Grome www.kengrome.com ------------------------------------------------------------- This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list . To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://webdna.smithmicro.com/
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