Input format

[colin81]

Hi All,

Is there anyway to keep data entered within a text area in the same format when being passed from a textarea to another page or persistent storage? An example of my problem would be when a user enters the following into a textarea :

Hello,

Im Colin

Thanks

When posted to another page and output using a simple response.write the output is as below :

Hello, Im Colin Thanks

Is there anyway to get around this?

Many Thanks
Colin

 

[DreXor]

the data in the text area is passed intact, you just need to put it in a viewable environment that will depict the formatting, such as another text area, or encased in <xmp> tags

in your example, if you view source of the page you displayed the input, it's in proper layout, if you HTMLEncode the input before displaying it, it will help with that issue.

DreX
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