HTML - Text Area Help Needed

Hey all,

I'm not sure if this goes here, but I believe my question is a combination of both HTML and perl (cgi script).

I have a website with multiple forms, one being a text area. The user is going to copy/paste test from a file into that text area. The thing is, it has to keep the formatting, so whatever the user typed in the text area is EXACTLY what gets sent through the email.

I have worked around this and when using the unix's mail client, i sent it as a content-type: text/enriched. this kept the formatting of the text area and still allowed me to bold some things on the email.

What I WANT to do, is send it using Content-type: text/html but still keep the formatting in the text area.

Hope this makes sense, thanks.

i am encountering problem when im inserting "%d" charecters in a text area and click submit button... when i insert those two characters individually it is working... but when i insert those two characters together there the browser is giving following error....
Quote:

Your browser sent a request that this server could not understand.

Hi, i have the following text

<td><span (some style stuff) ><a href="http://www.mysite.co.uk">We are a company in the UK
that blah blah blah <br />

Our website is great blah blah
</a>
</span>
</td>

This is sitting in a table, i'd like the area where the text is located to be hyperlinked (e.g if you go anywhere inside this table cell, the mouse turns to a link) to 'www.mysite.co.uk' etc., not just the text itself.. how can i do this?


Thanks

P&P

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

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

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, 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?

HI

Im making a site at the mo and im looking to keep the menu and a picture stay in the same position constantly. So when then user moves the scoll wheel only the text are will scroll. I dont want there to be any border or scroll bars around the text, so the only visable scroll bar will be the browsers... any ideas?

I recently put a comment box on my site and it works well,except when the users start typing, it's black text on a black background. How can I make it white text when they type the comment AND where you input your name? Obviously, if I want white text where you input your name, I'd like to know how to make that text box black as well?

http://celticsinsider.webs.com/20March2010.html

Just type something in the comment text area and you'll know what I mean


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Hey guys, I'm pretty new to this whole html/web developing community and I got a few questions. My most important question is:

1. Would it be possible to have a button(like a type=file) that browses directories only, but instead of uploading them, just displaying the path as a text, so when my script picks it up, it just reads the text?
EDIT:
What I'm talking about is very similar to this thread, but i just want them to upload path so when the script emails the data, its just a link to the path on the local server




and my other question is:

2. If a user enters data in a text area, like i am writing in this, when my script picks it up, it does not seem to get the newlines at the end and just displays it all on one line, is there a way i can go about fixing it so that it gets passed(or even converted) to exactly how the user entered it?
EDIT: I've tried using wrap="physical" tag but I've been reading and some people say that it doesn't work..any suggestions?




Thanks a bunch for your help