URGENT!! Selecting text from an html page

[walderr]

Is there any way of copying a portion of text from an html page and including it as a variable?

I have a set of reports in html which I am using a web page to add to and update. When updating, I need to take text from two areas of the html page for the relevant report and insert it into two multiple line text boxes for modifying. It may not be possible, but suggestions are welcome! Thanks

 

[shaddow]

You mean that you have an html and you want to update those fields into database or into an html?

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George, M

 

[mwolf00]

Why not put the text into <TEXTAREA> tags?

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[walderr]

Shaddow: I have an html document and I want to both update the text in that via a different (asp) web page, as well as updating a database with some of that information. However some of the sections of text are too large to fit in a database, so they sit in the html ONLY.

mwolf00: What would happen if I put the text in text <area tags>? I'm not sure what it does/ how it would help me.

 

[vbkris]

<textarea>Text Here <%=TextHere%></textarea>

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[walderr]

That won't work, if I understand correctly, as the reports are html and not asp, so the <%=TextHere%> won't have any effect. Or am I missing the point?

 

[walderr]

Just realised I'm being dense... I know perfectly well what textarea tags are, as I'm using them on the update page. The problem is that I have no way of populating the <%=TextHere%> from the html document.

 

[vbkris]

yup that was stupid of me, but i was just trying to tell how a textarea works...

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[shaddow]

You mean you want the info from the html file? where is the html stored, database?

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George, M

 

[walderr]

The html code isn't stored anywhere as such, it just sits as a document on a server. I'm starting to get the feeling I've asked the impossible here, so I might have to try other options!

 

[shaddow]

It's not imposible but i have the feeling you want to be able to display and change the file content.



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George, M