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>  -----Original Message-----
> From: 	Chip Dukes [mailto:cdukes77@b...] 
> Sent:	Friday, 22 February 2002 12:58 PM
> To:	Pro ASP HowTo
> Subject:	[proasp_howto] A Problem with Text Areas
> 
> I am trying to build a personal database of useful code samples. I store
and view the code samples in/from a database using ASP pages. 
>  
> There are two problems ... 
>  
> 1. Of course everything gets stored properly in the database when I paste
the code sample into a text area - but - when I try to reference the code
and display it on a page I have to use the "pre" and "code" tags to make it
display properly and in some cases replace the < and > signs with &lt ; and
&gt ; ... this is a problematic solution at best.
>  
> 2. The nasty problem comes - when I need to edit the code and pull it back
into a text area ... whatever special tricks I used to force the code to
display properly are lost due to the way the browser interprets the data.
>  
> I hope I have described this well enough that someone can understand it
... it's a problem that has nagged me for years. I seem to remember that
Microsoft had a tag that was only valid for IE that addressed this issue.
>  
> Has anyone faced and fixed this ... 
>  
> Chip Dukes
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