Change the "enter" key to write "<br>"

[wniatbms]

Good day

How do I go about changing the value of the return or enter key when a user is typing in a 'textarea' on my form so that the return is display as <br> in the dbase?

Thanking you in advance.

William

 

[shatch]

After the form has been submitted do

Dim strtext
strText = replace(request.form("mytextbox, vbcrlf, "<BR>")

That should do it

 

[wniatbms]

Shatch.

Thank you so much. It works just fine.

Ciao

 

[Cassien]

I'm not 100% sure what you're trying to do, but if you want the <BR> in to make sure there are line gaps when you output the date you could also just do this:

When you output the text from a db, read the relevant entry in to a string and then output it using:

<%=replace(ReadFile, VbCrLf, "<br>")%>

This will replace any carriage return with a <BR> automatically. You could also change it to add paragraphs or some other formatting.

Hope that helps,

Cass