Chat and textarea formatting

[Alex Tweedly]

Of course, the other option - depending on your timescale (and maybe 
your license) - would be to build it as a LC app, and then 'build for web'.

That way you'd have control over the formatting options you want to 
allow/provide.

Alex

P.S. but then, I'm strongly averse to any use of JS, HTML, etc. because 
I just don't like using them  and would go out of my way to do 
everything in LC if possible :-)  I am holding my breath for next DPs of 
LC for web.
Your mileage, and your dislike of non-LC languages, may vary.

On 15/02/2023 16:32, harrison--- via use-livecode wrote:
> Hi Richard,
>
> It takes care of the line spacing problem fine which is good!
>
> It doesnt like apostrophes in words, and returns garbage for that.
>
> It doesnt keep any bold facing or text coloring information.
>
> Thanks for this suggestion.
>
> Rick
>
>
>
>> On Feb 15, 2023, at 4:52 AM, Richard Gaskin via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>>
>> You may find it easier to set the contenteditable property of a container element like div or p, and then you can retrieve the inner HTML of that element with:
>>
>>   var tFldMainHTML = document.getElementById("fldMain").innerHTML
>>
>> Save the example below to a text file and run in your browser. There's extra stuff there just for appearance, but the meat of it is that one line.
>>
>> Once the page is loaded, copy some styled text and paste it into the field. When the button's clicked you'll see the full HTML tags in an alert dialog.
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