displaying HTML tags in a text area 3

[JohannIcon]

Dear All,

I have a problem. I am retreiving data from an Access database and then display it in a text box. However, where there are HTML tags in the field, it is not displaying them properly. For exemple <b>Johann</b> is not displayed in bold but as it is coded, ie &quot;<b>Johann</b>&quot;. This problem only seems to occur in text area boxes, cause when I display them normally, ie
<%=(rs.Fields.Item(&quot;ItemText&quot.Value)%>, it is displayed properly. How can I solve this problem?

Another thing, I used text area boxes so that I can display a scrollbar with the field, so that the user can scroll the information.

Thanks for your help

 

[FesterSXS]

textarea boxes will only show plain text - it will not recognise HTML formatting other than as text. If you want a scrolling box with HTML formatted code then I would suggest using a <DIV> block. If you need any help with this then let me know.
Tony

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[JohannIcon]

Yes please Tony, can you tell me how I can do that?

Thanks

 

[FesterSXS]

try something like this:

<DIV STYLE=&quot;width: 300; height: 300; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; background-color: #CDDDFD; padding: 2px;&quot;>
<P>place your HTML code here and it will be formatted correctly.</P>
<B>bold text</B><BR>
<I>italic text</I>

<BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR><BR>

<P>some more <B>bold text</B> here</P>
</DIV>

Tony

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[JohannIcon]

Hey mate, I tried it but it is still giving me the <a href:.........</a> link. This is the code I did:-

<DIV STYLE=&quot;width: 352; height: 300; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0; padding: 2px;&quot;>

<textarea style=&quot;background-color:#FFFFFF; font-family: arial; border: 0; font-size:9pt; letter-spacing:0px; color:GREY&quot; name=&quot;text&quot; cols=&quot;68&quot; readonly rows=&quot;21&quot;><%=(rs.Fields.Item(&quot;ItemText&quot.Value)%></textarea>

</Div>

 

[Tarwn]

Don't use the text area tags. The DIV is going to replace your text area, so you will be outputting your db entry directly into the tags like so :

<DIV STYLE=&quot;width: 352; height: 300; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0; padding: 2px;&quot;>
<%=(rs.Fields.Item(&quot;ItemText&quot;).Value)%>
</Div>

Otherwise your db entry is still inside the textarea and being processed as text, even though the textarea was in a div.
Hope that helps,
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[JohannIcon]

Ok Mate, it worked like this :-

<DIV STYLE=&quot;width: 352; height: 300; overflow-x: hidden; overflow-y: auto; background-color: #FFFFFF; border: 0; padding: 2px;&quot;>
<%=(rs.Fields.Item(&quot;ItemText&quot.Value)%>
</Div>

But the problem is that it is not showing all the text that there is in the database. I tried to remove the overflow, but then I had no scrollbars. What I mean is that if I have 50 lines of code for example, it is only showing 30.

What do I have wrng?

 

[JohannIcon]

Sorry mate,

Please don't take into condsideration my last reply, it is working great now! Thanks very much for your precious help!!!!

Thanks

 

[Tarwn]

Tony deserves more credit on this than I do, I just helped with the syntax, * for Tony
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[FesterSXS]

cheers both i like stars Tony

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