Hi,

Is there a way that a user can type plain text into a form Multi Text Box and it gets converted to html code when submitted, I.e. it puts in the <br> tags ?

Thanks,
Ells.

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Cheers,
C.

Chris Ellis
Icon-Business Ltd
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Hi,

You can try using regular expressions to replace the carriage-returns and newlines with <br> elements. There is a good tutorial on Regular Expressions on http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/120400-1.shtml. The "pattern" that you need to replace would be vbCrlF, which is the newline I am referring to.

Cheers!

Marlon Villarama
Support Team
Web Burner Hosting
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If the problem is just of having <br/> tags then, just do the following. Display the text which U have in a <p></> tag. This would print the text as the user formatted it.

Thanks and regards,

Raj Babar

Thanks Raj, unfortunately, even with the text within the <p></p> tages, the carriage returns do not show.
My code looks like this:
<p><% response.write rsuser("Content") %></p>

Thanks for your help,
Chris.

Cheers,
C.

Chris Ellis
Icon-Business Ltd
www.icon-business.net
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Hi Marlon,

I already have code that replaces the ' with `
Is there a way to replace two things on the same line, I.e. replace ' with ` and vbCrlF with <br> ?

My code is:
UpdateContent = Replace(Request.Form("GetContent"),"'","`")

Cheers,
C.

Chris Ellis
Icon-Business Ltd
www.icon-business.net
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I've managed to get the replace working, but it doesn't seem to recognise the vbCrlF as the carriage return entered in the form.

If I change the code to replace the word ENTER to <br> it works.

The code is:
UpdateContent = Replace(Request.Form("GetContent"),"'","`")
UpdateContent = Replace(UpdateContent,"vbCrlF", "<br>")

Cheers,
C.

Chris Ellis
Icon-Business Ltd
www.icon-business.net
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I've sorted the problem out.

I used the following code in the display page:
<% = Replace(rsuser("Content"),VbCrLf, "<br>") %>

Thanks for all your help guys.

Cheers,
C.

Chris Ellis
Icon-Business Ltd
www.icon-business.net
[email protected]