line breaks in a textarea

[lemandras]

I have a custom control for sending an email. I need to have line breaks in the textarea. <BR /> does not work, nor does\n\r.

Here is the code i am using:

Message_render = "<textarea name=\"MESSAGE\" class=\"GradientBlueTextarea\" id=\"DLGEMAILSEND_MESSAGE\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"4\" >test<BR />Test</textarea>"

Any ideas

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

I have a custom control for sending an email. I need to have line breaks in the textarea. <BR /> does not work, nor does\n\r.

Here is the code i am using:

Message_render = "<textarea name=\"MESSAGE\" class=\"GradientBlueTextarea\" id=\"DLGEMAILSEND_MESSAGE\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"4\" >test<BR />Test</textarea>"

Any ideas

What do the authors of the custom control suggest?

[Steve Workings]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Tom - a custom control is a type of control in a grid.

Larry - try using a crlf(). I haven't tried it, but it's the next obvious attempt I think.

[Tom Cone Jr]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Tom - a custom control is a type of control in a grid.

Larry - try using a crlf(). I haven't tried it, but it's the next obvious attempt I think.

Thanks, Steve.

Couldn't tell from the post if the user was working in the web app server or on a desktop app using an html memo.

The term "custom control" can refer to many third party controls, so that's what I had in mind.

-- tom

[Stan Mathews]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

And no one reads the How to post in this area...


1.Give your posting a clear, specific title
2.At the top of the post, say what version of Alpha Five you are asking about
3.Right after that, say whether you are asking about web or desktop applications
4.There is no need to say that you are new to Alpha: that is what this area is for, after all.

[Steve Wood]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Your custom control just creates a text area for the user to type in to. Nothing you do in creating or populating that textarea will decide how your email looks when received. Somewhere else on your dialog/grid must be some method that sends the mail. BR only works if the email is being sent as HTML. Crlf() only works if you are sending it as text.

[lemandras]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

I am building a web application using Alpha 5 version 10.

I have created a dialog that will allow the user to input a subject and a message.

Within the message body (Textarea) I want to auto populate several fields from the grid the user is on. I wanted to have the typed message and several fields after that.

For example:

This is the message with the text the user typed in.

Customer Name: John Doe
Home Phone: 999-999-9999

[Steve Wood]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Did you solve the problem in your first post?

Although you could probably figure out how to pre-populate a textarea, this might not be the best approach. I assume you want to pouplate this so it gets saved to the record, and gets printed in a report. You can do that in the CanInsert Event, automatically append that information to the field that is assigned to that textarea.

In the CanInsert event, it might look like this:

DataSubmitted.myfield = DataSumbitted.myfield + crlf() + "Customer Name: " + DataSumbitted.mynamefield

Assuming the mynamefield is on the same grid, or if not referenced from wherever it exists.

[David Brown]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

This will work.

name = "Marlon Williams"
address = "101 Main Street"
City = "New York"

'Write Xbasic code here that returns the HTML to be displayed by this control
Message_render = "<textarea name=\"MESSAGE\" class=\"GradientBlueTextarea\" id=\"DLGEMAILSEND_MESSAGE\" cols=\"50\" rows=\"4\">" + name + <<%html%
&nbsp;
%html% + address + <<%html%
&nbsp;
%html% + City + <<%html%
</textarea>
%html%

[lemandras]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Thanks David I will try that.

Thanks Steve, I may also use that for the future phase of this project

[lemandras]

Re: line breaks in a textarea

Thanks David I will try that.

Thanks Steve, I may also use that for the future phase of this project