Properly displaying large amounts of data....

[TonyU]

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I have a textarea field in my form where users will input upto 200 characters or more.

My problem right now is properly displaying that data. Right now, my data shows like:

Blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah


But I need it to display like this in my table:
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah blah blah

How should I approach this? Thanks in advance.

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a firm foundation with the bricks
that others throw at him"
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[Bastien]

you need to replace the control feed & line breaks )(chr(13)& chr(10)) with <BR> to keep the formatting the same

strText=replace(strText, chr(13), &quot;<BR>&quot



Bastien

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but it still tastes like chicken

 

[teenmonk]

When you say displaying the data, are you referring to the output of the data once the form has been submitted or the appearance of the text while the user is imputting the information into your form? Please clarify.

 

[TonyU]

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Displaying the data after it has been submitted, and I'm not displaying the form data, but displaying the record from the database once entered. I'm creating a session variable of the just entered ID number and using that.

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a firm foundation with the bricks
that others throw at him&quot;
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[Guest_imported]

try using

<%= replace(datatxt,vbcrlf,&quot;<br>&quot %>

while displaying the data from the record in the db.

 

[lamazon]

Hi Tony:

The textarea field has an attribute called &quot;Wrap&quot; which is set by default to &quot;Off&quot;. You can set the value of the &quot;Wrap&quot; to &quot;Virtual&quot; which wraps the text in the textarea but is actually stored as a string of text without CRLF (line breaks). You want to set the value of &quot;Wrap&quot; to &quot;Physical&quot; which wraps the text in the textarea AND stores it with the line breaks. Your textarea will look something like the code below:

<textarea name=&quot;message&quot; Wrap=&quot;Physical&quot;></textarea>

Your text will be stored as:


blah blah blah blah
blah blah blah blah

 

[Tarwn]

If I understand correctly you currently accept up to 200 characters fro ma user by giving them a textarea. Now you would like to display this information back to them in a block that you control the width of...
How about using something like a div and set the wrap using CSS as well as the width?
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