HTML - Text Area Formatting

Is there a way to put text in a type of fixed width and height area? If I make a table that is 100 x 10px and type inside it, if there is too much text it will stretch the table until all the text shows inside. I want it to just cut off everything that is bigger than the demensions specified.

Hello Everyone,

I know it's been forever since I made a post, but I ran into something I can't figure out on my own and I am hoping that someone here might be able to give me a hand. I recently spoke with a potential client that wants to copy a feature on another website:

http://batchgeo.com/

as you can see, on batchgeo.com the end user can paste data from excel into the textarea field, then when the user clicks out of the textarea, it formats the data to look like it is in a table.

Does anyone know how they are doing this?

Thanks in advance for any help.

-A

Ok, I don't have a way to show you how it's not working, but I would like to put text boxes under each comment picture on my comments page (much like you see on comment sites for MySpace and other networking sites), where the user may copy and paste the code into their own pages and use the images I provide. I found out how to do a basic 'form' with the name being "blank" and the value being the link to my desired image in my FTP, with the "ftp://ftp." taken out and replaced with "http://". So far, all attempts have been futile, and I'm not sure just what I'm doing right or wrong anymore...can anyone help me out? Please note that I'm vision impaired, and it may be somthing as small as me not seeing a particular tag or something, but I doubt it, as I've used my screen reader to read th ecode for me both when inputting it and reading it. I also note that my posts are in larger font so I can read them easier, I'm not telling anyone to do this, only asking, to please reply in size 3-4 for me please...and th kindly Here is an example of what I've done, which didn't work:

<form>
<input type="text" name="blank" value="<center><a href="http://silverwolfden.com"><img src="http://silverwolfden.com/images/comments/compliments/great_pic/great_pic_10_1_sw.gif" alt="Silver Wolf Den" border="0"></a><br><a href="http://www.silverwolfden.com" maxlength=30 maxheight= 5></a></center>">
</form>

If you'd like to see my website (even though there's no way to see what the problem is I noticed ppl were asking to have ppl post the sites they work on it's http://www.silverwolfden.com

Is it possible to get the initial value of a text area to be in any tags (like the italics tag for example)?

Hello,
I have a text area which is programmed to be dragged around the screen, and then the coordinates are saved. Would anyone happen to know if there is any way of changing the shape of a text area to be circular?


Thanks!

I was just wondering if this here was the right code:

HTML Code:

textarea {
     resize:none;

I'm just checking because my editor seems to have a problem with this code. (Coffe Cup)

How I can set the scrool bar so that the vertical bar will show? When the typed text exceeds the horizontal space area, cursor will be moved into next line without hitting the Enter key.

hello all,
I am facing a wiered pbm on text area resizing in chrome 2 and safari 4. I have on textarea which gets enabled/focus upon completion of one method (init()) . But after successful execution of init() method that text area doesnt enable user to type UNTIL user resizes the text area. I have put a css to disable the resizing of text area with resize:none style. but still the text area on chrome 2 and safari 4 isnt getting snabled/focus after init() method.
Any one plz help me to solve this , will be very thank ful to him. I have even tried few options like increase the size of text area but didnt wrk,
What worked is if while defining text area if I put default value , then only it focus the text area afyer init() method. But this options clashes with my requirment
thanks
Ani

I'm using a jquery plugin that creates a grid view using a table. Inside the cells i have text areas that i'm manually sizing using the rows attribute, to fill the td. It's not working very cleanly though. Does anyone know of a way to get text areas to automatically size themselves to a containing td?

thanks, max

Hi,

I have hidden text areas which leave spaces in the middle of HTML.
I want to remove them.

Can anyone let me know how could I do it?

Thanks in advance.

Hi I have a php form on the contact section of my website. It has a Name, Email and Message Box

My Problem is in the message box i have made it quite large so they can type in what they need. But the blinking line to show where the start of the text is is in the centre of the box. How can I align this to the top left?

Many Thanks

Hi,

I added a rich text editor into my html page for text area fields, let us say description field.

The user enters the text, modify its color, changes its size and fonts...
The value saved for this field in the database is:
<font color="#ff00ff">description text </font>
and is showing as it is on the screen.

If I look at the source code of the page, I notice the following:
&lt;font color="#ff00ff"&gt;description text &lt;/font&gt;

The problem is that, there are two conversions happening:
< Converted To &lt;
> Converted To &gt;

How should I avoid this conversion so that the description text appears in its right format taking into consideration the html tags.

Note: in the head of the page, I have the following:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />

I would appreciate any help.

Best Regards,
Lara

I have a very little task here and I can not figure out the best way to do it without using tables.... I will if I have to but I would rather not. below is a paragraph on my website:

Rebuttal – They fail to mention that any taxes/bond use to buy Golden State Water Company will result in a reduction in water rates far in excess of any tax. See details in the Summary Flyer.....

I want the the next line to go under the the word "They" (the first word after rebuttal) so the word rebuttal is just off on the left by itself.

Here is the code of the paragraph:

<strong>Rebuttal</strong> – They fail to mention that any taxes/bond use to buy Golden State Water Company will result in a reduction in water rates far in excess of any tax....

Thank you guys so much in advance I could really use the help!

I'm trying to apply simple formatting (i.e., bold, italic, etc.) to a scrolling text box on my site: www.soulsticemarketing.com/faq.htm

Does anyone know how to do this?

Hi, this seems simple to me but i cant do it! the buttons do work but when i combine them on the same text area they dont work! heres what i have put together so far,

Select all form:

<form name="select_all">
<textarea name="text_area" rows="2" cols="80">TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT</a>
</textarea><br />
<input type="button" value="select all" onClick="javascript:this.form.text_area.focus();this.form.text_area.select();">
</form><br />

Copy Text area:

<textarea cols=85 rows=20 id='testText'>TEXT TEXT TEXT TEXT</textarea><br>
<button onclick='copyToClipboard(document.getElementById("testText").value);'>Copy To Clipboard</button>

Copy javascript:

<script type='text/javascript'>
function copyToClipboard(s)
{
if( window.clipboardData && clipboardData.setData )
{
clipboardData.setData("Text", s);
}
else
{
// You have to sign the code to enable this or allow the action in about:config by changing user_pref("signed.applets.codebase_principal_support", true);
netscape.security.PrivilegeManager.enablePrivilege('UniversalXPConnect');

var clip = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/clipboard;[[[[1]]]]'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard);
if (!clip) return;

// create a transferable
var trans = Components.classes['@mozilla.org/widget/transferable;[[[[1]]]]'].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsITransferable);
if (!trans) return;

// specify the data we wish to handle. Plaintext in this case.
trans.addDataFlavor('text/unicode');

// To get the data from the transferable we need two new objects
var str = new Object();
var len = new Object();

var str = Components.classes["@mozilla.org/supports-string;[[[[1]]]]"].createInstance(Components.interfaces.nsISupportsString);

var copytext=meintext;

str.data=copytext;

trans.setTransferData("text/unicode",str,copytext.length*[[[[2]]]]);

var clipid=Components.interfaces.nsIClipboard;

if (!clip) return false;

clip.setData(trans,null,clipid.kGlobalClipboard);
}
}
</script>


Any sugestions?