html formatting in a field

Mark Brownell gizmotron at earthlink.net
Thu May 27 11:27:31 EDT 2004


On Thursday, May 27, 2004, at 08:16  AM, Springer, Paul wrote:

> I am struggling with HTML formatting of text in a field. I don't want 
> to
> copy or import it, as described by the HTMLText field property
> documentation; I just want to put some HTML tags into the contents of a
> field and have the text displayed accordingly. I see that I can set the
> HTMLText property of a field to some html string, but I want to format
> different text portions differently, not the entire field with one tag
> string. Can I do that?

Try this:

1.) Create some formatted text in a text editor.

2.) Copy that formatted text to the clipboard.

3.) Paste it into a text field ( field "yourField" ) in Rev.

4.) In the message window enter this:
    put the HTMLText of field "yourField" into field "yourField"

This way you can see the different kinds of HTML tags. Also see the 
docs on HTMLText.

Mark



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