Formatting Textarea content back into HTML

[sdagger2]

Hi

I am a bit stuck.

I have an asp page with a textarea in a form. I can insert/modify text and store it into an access database no problem but I would like to do the following:

1) enter text in the textarea and have the ability to add an href and/or embolden some words (very basic formatting). Submit this to the database in a memo field.
2) when the asp page is viewed in the browser, I would like to display the content with the href tag and the <strong></strong> tags parsed in the normal way by the browser.

Is there an easy way to do this and examples if possible? I don't want to have to download and learn tinymce or cuteeditior for something so simple.

Any help will be much appreciated.

 

[vicvirk]

Just type your HTML tags within the text field




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[sdagger2]

Hi

Thank you for the reply. I must be going mad - been a long day. I have been using a checkstring function which looks after illegal content which could break the SQL when inserting into the database - such as ' and <> as ' and </html> could break the page display.

I had forgotton about the <> which stopped allowing href or tags.

Thanks for the help (it was a help and forced me to check my code).

I am now just checking and conditioning the ' but allowing tags to be entered. I will just need to be careful when people add content tags.