Topic: Generate html tag when hit enter question (Page 1 of 1)

Hi, guys. How are you?
I have jest wondering if it is possible to generate html tag when hit enter key.
I mean I have a text field in my form. That value is coming back to web page itself using ASP.
I want to formate that text field value. I have not got any idea yet.
I am trying to find through google but not found yet.
Do you know any resourse?
Cheers.

Hiroki Kozai

well i did something like this using some of Pugzly's code. You have to highlight the text and then press a certain button on a form but it may give you what you want.

function hiliteToBold(txtArea){ 

	txtAreaName = txtArea.name;

	txtRange = document.all[txtAreaName].createTextRange();

	txtContainer = txtRange.parentElement().name;

	objRange = document.selection.createRange();

	hiliteTxt = objRange.text;

	toBoldTxt = "<b>" + hiliteTxt + "</b>";

		if(hiliteTxt != ""){ 

			objRange.text = toBoldTxt;

	}

}

so I just have my main text box called "txtArea" and from the button, call the function. I had it to where you could add paragraph tags, links, etc...

not sure if this is what you are after but it won't do it by just hitting enter.

Later,

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Hi, thanks a lot for your reply.
Well, I wonder how hotmail format paragraph or br things when I send an email.
If I hit enter once, it takes next line, isnt' it?
Hmm....
Anybody knows how it works?

Hiroki Kozai

Hiroki.
Do I understand you correctly here:
You have a textfield in a form, you type into it and press enter to change the line, then you press "save" and it goes to an ASP script that does something and then you see the result. Correct?

In that case you don't do this with javascript or html.
Do it in the ASP code by checking for linefeeds (vbCr, vbCrLf, Chr(13), Chr(10) ) and convert them to <br> using 'Replace(inputString,vbCr, "<br>")' if you want to the linefeeds to show up as <br> in the HTML.

If you want to insert the HTML before you reload the page, you need to do it in JavaScript. I did this little semi-wysiwyg a bunch of years back. http://www.dmsproject.com/test/wysiwygger/DmSWysiwyg.html (GRANSKA means preview).
/Dan

/Dan

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[This message has been edited by DmS (edited 11-30-2003).]