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From: Xerxes on 26 May 2010 11:20 Hi, I have a textarea in my page and its value comes from the database. The text in the database table contains some html tags like <br />. However, when the page is rendered I see <br /> instead of line breaks and view source shows "<br />". I tries to do a replace in the js code that assigns the value to textarea but no change. When I added a breakpoint, at the point of assignment, the value contained < and > and not < and > Is there anything I can do to force the html tags to be interpretted and not printed? document.getElementById('taComments').value = record.Comment.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'); "record.Comment" conatins: This comment was added manually in the database for testing purposes.<br />Some other text follows ....
From: Evertjan. on 26 May 2010 11:46 Xerxes wrote on 26 mei 2010 in comp.lang.javascript: > Hi, > I have a textarea in my page and its value comes from the database. > The text in the database table contains some html tags like <br />. That is an XML tag, not an HTML one. > However, when the page is rendered I see <br /> instead of line breaks > and view source shows "<br />". I tries to do a replace in the > js code that assigns the value to textarea but no change. > When I added a breakpoint, at the point of assignment, the value > contained < and > and not < and > Is there anything I can do to > force the html tags to be interpretted and not printed? > > document.getElementById('taComments').value = > record.Comment.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'); try: ========================================== <textarea id='ta'>here</textarea> <script type='text/javascript'> var oldT = 'Hello<br />world!'; var newT = oldT.replace('<br />','\n'); document.getElementById('ta').innerHTML = newT; </script> ========================================== -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
From: Xerxes on 26 May 2010 12:09 On May 26, 11:46 am, "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivo...(a)interxnl.net> wrote: > Xerxes wrote on 26 mei 2010 in comp.lang.javascript: > > > Hi, > > I have a textarea in my page and its value comes from the database. > > The text in the database table contains some html tags like <br />. > > That is an XML tag, not an HTML one. > > > However, when the page is rendered I see <br /> instead of line breaks > > and view source shows "<br />". I tries to do a replace in the > > js code that assigns the value to textarea but no change. > > When I added a breakpoint, at the point of assignment, the value > > contained < and > and not < and > Is there anything I can do to > > force the html tags to be interpretted and not printed? > > > document.getElementById('taComments').value = > > record.Comment.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'); > > try: > > ========================================== > > <textarea id='ta'>here</textarea> > > <script type='text/javascript'> > var oldT = 'Hello<br />world!'; > var newT = oldT.replace('<br />','\n'); > document.getElementById('ta').innerHTML = newT; > </script> > > ========================================== > > -- > Evertjan. > The Netherlands. > (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress) Thank you for the reply. I modified the script as you suggested but it gives me an error when I change '.value' to '.innerHTML': htmlfile: unknown runtime error. When I changed it back to '.value' it kind of works; only the first instance of <br /> is replaced by '\n' which actually does a line break. Other <br /> remain unchanged.
From: Evertjan. on 26 May 2010 12:17 Xerxes wrote on 26 mei 2010 in comp.lang.javascript: >> � var newT = oldT.replace('<br />','\n'); [please do not quote signatures on usenet] > Thank you for the reply. > I modified the script as you suggested but it gives me an error when I > change '.value' to '.innerHTML': > htmlfile: unknown runtime error. > > When I changed it back to '.value' it kind of works; only the first > instance of <br /> is replaced by '\n' which actually does a line > break. Other <br /> remain unchanged. I am not going to do your work, just point you to a useful direction. Please readup the specs of javascript replace() on regex and replace multiple. -- Evertjan. The Netherlands. (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)
From: Xerxes on 26 May 2010 12:23 On May 26, 11:46 am, "Evertjan." <exjxw.hannivo...(a)interxnl.net> wrote: > Xerxes wrote on 26 mei 2010 in comp.lang.javascript: > > > Hi, > > I have a textarea in my page and its value comes from the database. > > The text in the database table contains some html tags like <br />. > > That is an XML tag, not an HTML one. > > > However, when the page is rendered I see <br /> instead of line breaks > > and view source shows "<br />". I tries to do a replace in the > > js code that assigns the value to textarea but no change. > > When I added a breakpoint, at the point of assignment, the value > > contained < and > and not < and > Is there anything I can do to > > force the html tags to be interpretted and not printed? > > > document.getElementById('taComments').value = > > record.Comment.replace('<', '<').replace('>', '>'); > > try: > > ========================================== > > <textarea id='ta'>here</textarea> > > <script type='text/javascript'> > var oldT = 'Hello<br />world!'; > var newT = oldT.replace('<br />','\n'); > document.getElementById('ta').innerHTML = newT; > </script> > > ========================================== > > -- > Evertjan. > The Netherlands. > (Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress) I found this piece of code at http://www.bennadel.com/blog/142-Ask-Ben-Javascript-String-Replace-Method.htm. It allowed me to replace all instances. Thank you for yoour help.
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