2 questions...

[benbacardi]

1) how can i limit a textarea to 200 characters only? and
2) how can i capture line breaks that people enter? so that when it goes into the database and gets read back, the line breaks are automatically entered?

[Rob]

Hi ben...

To answer you first question, you will need either a javascript or some server side for validation of the length as maxlength is not a parameter you can pass the textarea (unlike input elements)

For display of the databased content, you can use:-

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content = replace(content,vbcrlf,"
")

[benbacardi]

thanks very much rob

[benbacardi]

hey rob... is there anyway to reverse this? I want to put the value in the database back into a <textarea> to be able to make it editable again - however, i dont want the
to appear in the textarea, i just want a line break...? is that possible?

[kpm547]

Thooks like you'd just do the following to put it back in the text area.

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content = replace(content,"
",vbcrlf)

And then write content into the value of the text area.

[Rob]

To be honest, why bother?

Just store in the database without all the markup (lets face it, it save space)
and then make your
elements, etc before outputting to the page.
You also wont have to bother converting to/from textarea elements.

This in my opinion is the most logical way.