[Frank]

Hello,

I am stumped.
I have a database that has a record for each line in a document.
There is a field that has a value to indicate how many blank lines to insert before writing the document line.

I want this to be a web application, but want text only, no html.
I found an editor at http://www.blueshoes.org that will allow text only.

My problem is I cannot get the textarea to format with the line spacing.

I tried

doc = doc + document_line + ‘\n’;

<textarea>
<%=doc%>
</textarea>

This is not working.
Can someone with more knowledge help me?

Thanks
Frank

[Riyad Kalla]

Frank if you are trying to display this text in a webpage, then your newline char needs to be an html new line “<br>”, \n only makes sense in the contexts of Java applications.

[Frank]

ok, thanks
Then I would need a way to strip the html before writing the document back to the database.
Are there any routines to do this?
I thought the editor from blueshoes would just do text.

Regards,

Frank

[Riyad Kalla]

Hard to say, you could look for a regular expression to do it, depending on how much control you have over the HTML, you could simply parse it out yourself.

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