htmlText question

[Klaus Major]

Hi Doug,

> If I do something like
>
> set the htmlText of field "chatField" to the htmlText of field 
> "chatField" &
> "<p><b>test</b></p>"
>
> Then it adds a line of bolded text to the field.
>
> The entire htmlText for that field then looks like
>
> <p></p>
> <p><font color="#000000">Tao: back to normal?
</font></p>
> <p><b>test</b></p>
> <p><font color="#000000"><b>Tao: now
</b></font></p>
>
> Why, though, if I then
>
> put "doug" after field "chatField"
>
> does the new line *also* appear in bold, and all lines after that? How 
> do I
> "clear" things so that normal text appears again?
>
> I can do
>
> set the htmlText of field "chatField" to ""
>
> and that works - but it also clears the entire field.

Maybe:

...
set the htmltext of fld "chatField" to the htmltext of fld "chatField" 
& "<p>doug</p>"
...

to add "plain" text?

And

put fld "chatField" into fld "chatField"

will reset the field to unformatted text...

Hope that helps...

> doug

Regards

Klaus Major
klaus at major-k.de
www.major-k.de