Chat and textarea formatting

[harrison at all-auctions.com]

Hi Alex,

Once the HTML is sent, then it becomes an LC thing,
because I have to put the information into an LC variable,
and then after doing a little work on it, put it into the database
using LC database stuff.

If LC had a way to provide direct inputs fields into webpages
it would be a totally LC thing, but there is no way to do that
without HTML. :-(

Yes, I saw the horrible Javascript thing.  Yuk!

While TinyMCE looks interesting, I really wanted
to see if there was a solution that didn’t depend
on a third party.

I will bookmark that website, and if all else fails,
I may find I’m stuck with it.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Rick




> On Feb 14, 2023, at 7:49 PM, Alex Tweedly via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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.