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EdwardMartinIII
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Save this in, for example, a file called "sample.js":
then save this as "sample.html":
Hope that helps.
Cheers,
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Edward
"Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
Code:
function ValidateText(Argument)
{
Argument = Argument.replace(/ /g,"");
return Argument;
}then save this as "sample.html":
Code:
<!DOCTYPE html
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">[/URL]
<html xmlns="[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"[/URL] xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"></meta>
<title>JavaScript Sample</title>
<script src="Sample.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="MainForm">
<p>Enter text below and click outside the text area to "validate" it.</p>
<textarea rows="10" cols="50" name="Texty" id="Texty" onblur="document.MainForm.Texty.value=ValidateText(document.MainForm.Texty.value);"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>Hope that helps.
Cheers,
Edward "Cut a hole in the door. Hang a flap. Criminy, why didn't I think of this earlier?!" -- inventor of the cat door
scriptOhead
Technical User
<html>
<head>
<title>Strip White Space</title>
<script type = "text/javascript">
var str = "";
var whiteChars = /[ \n\r]/g;
function A(txt){
str = txt.replace(whiteChars, ""
;
document.F.a.value = str;
}
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<form name = "F">
<textarea name = "a" rows=12 cols=20 onblur = "A(this.value)"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<head>
<title>Strip White Space</title>
<script type = "text/javascript">
var str = "";
var whiteChars = /[ \n\r]/g;
function A(txt){
str = txt.replace(whiteChars, ""
;document.F.a.value = str;
}
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff">
<form name = "F">
<textarea name = "a" rows=12 cols=20 onblur = "A(this.value)"></textarea>
</form>
</body>
</html>
scriptOhead
Technical User
ps. My post above will strip linebreaks as well, if that's what you need.
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