Chat and textarea formatting

Tue Feb 14 19:49:22 EST 2023

It's not really a LC question, it's an HTML thing :-)

textarea etc. only handle plain (unformatted) text.

Googling for suggestions I can only find two common answers:

1. horribly complicated ways to add Javascript to your script to handle 
formatting

2. "use TinyMCE"

I'd go for the second alternative. I did use it years ago, and it was (I 
think I remember) quite easy, but I haven't used it for a long, long time.

Alex.

On 14/02/2023 22:46, harrison--- via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Craig,
>
> No.
>
> I have an HTML5 <textarea>
>
> Here’s an example from W3Schools:
>
> <!DOCTYPE html>
> <html>
> <head>
> <style>
> textarea {
>    resize: none;
> }
> </style>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <h1>The textarea element - Disable default resize option</h1>
>
> <p><label for="w3review">Review of W3Schools:</label></p>
>
> <textarea id="w3review" name="w3review" rows="4" cols="50">
> At w3schools.com you will learn how to make a website. They offer free tutorials in all web development technologies.
> </textarea>
>
> </body>
> </html>
>
> It creates a text box that a user can enter text into for input purposes.
> The text box will not however retain any formatting that one
> might like to apply such as bold text or even simple carriage returns.
> It all ends up being one big block of text such as this one.
>
> The data has to go into my database so I can retrieve it for someone
> else at a later time.  When I retrieve the text, it needs to retain whatever
> rich text that the original user entered.
>
> I want to know how people are handling this either with or without
> the use of <textarea>.
>
> I hope that clears up any confusion.
>
> Thanks for getting back to me!
>
> Rick
>
>> On Feb 14, 2023, at 5:16 PM, Craig Newman via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi.
>>
>> Not sure I understand.
>>
>> You have an editable field that you cannot type into? Do you get a blinking cursor in that field if you click inside it?
>>
>> Perhaps some properties for that field are such that LC is preventing access?
>>
>> Craig
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