Hi all,
am starting to get my application working. Thanks for you all for previous help.

The problem now is that I would like to be able to format the output from a database field into paragraphs. What happens is this :

1.user fills in textarea on form with , say summary of their last job
2.data is submitted to d'base via post method
3.reading from database to screen is working ok.

It is the way the output is presented is the problem. Does anybody have any suggestions,
thanks in advance,
larry101

Are you saying that the user enters the summary in paragraphs but that's lost when its re-displayed? If so, just add <pre> tags around the output and that will preserve carriage-returns etc.

At the moment the summary is written to the database as one long string and is also read from the database as a long string with no formatting done prior to being displayed onscreen.

Does that help in answering your query?
Cheers,
larry101

Then I don't understand how you expect it to be split into paragraphs. If its just one long string, how will you determine where to put the paragraph breaks?

Hi,
     If you want to format the text that is comming from the record set use a para and use one attribute as follows.


<p align=justify> <%=objRs("Text")%></p>

This will format the data. i hope this code will help you.
Thanks
Suresh Babu.T

Larry,

If you have used <ENTER> keys twice to identify it as paragraph, then you can do this after retrieving that from database, before displaying it on the page. OR if you want every <ENTER> keypress to be identified as a paragraph delimiter, then use just one vbCrLF there in the replace function, that should help.

Hope this is what you are looking for.
Cheers!

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