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Finding number of lines in an html textarea

I'm writing a mobile web application where scrollbars are not displayed on the device's browser. Due to this, I'm trying to dynamically modify the height of the textarea to make it bigger, however I don't know of any way to actually get the line count on an html textarea. Any help would be greatly appreciated! EDIT So I realize now t...

When textbox is resized in IE, block position behavior is messed up

Hi folks, i am using the autoresize plugin which increases the height as users type in stuff. It works great on FF/Chrome, but the behavior is messed up on IE (see screenshots below). Essentially, the textbox, when resized, does not push the rest of the buttons down, which is weird, given that nothing on the page is absolute positioned....

jquery ID of previous dynamically added text area

Hi I'm attempting to hack a wordpress plugin to gain some extra functionality. As it stands i've adjusted it so I can add a new textarea with it's own upload box. I now need a way to get the ID of the new textarea, so I can pass the uploaded file text back to the correct textarea. this is my code: JQUERY: <script type="text/jquery"...

jQuery this() for textarea?

Hey! Another small problem (isn't it a bug in jQuery?). I've got a textarea like this: <textarea>Something</textarea> I want to erase "Something" after clicking, so: $("textarea").click(function() { $(this).text(""); }); Ok so far. There are problems when I want to change the "Something" text ONLY when there's "Something" in ...

Get each line from textarea

<textarea> put returns between paragraphs for linebreak add 2 spaces at end indent code by 4 spaces quote by placing > at start of line </textarea> $text = value from this textarea; How to: 1) Get each line from this textarea ($text) and work with them using foreach()? 2) Add <br /> to the end of each line, except the last one? 3) ...

Disallowing keystrokes in the textarea with jQuery

In the Twitter signup process, they do not allow you to input any character other than alphanumeric keywords What would be a good way, efficient way of doing so? The plugins available seems to be a little too slow for my liking, so i was wondering if anyone had more efficient way of doing so ...

Disabling iPhone keyboard for textarea in web application

So I have multiple textareas on my page that are editable depending on a users status. The problem is that even when a user clicks on a textarea that they are not allowed to edit, the keyboard comes up on mobile safari. The user can't actually edit the textarea, but it's really annoying/looks bad. I was thinking of maybe making it dis...

textarea empty should show disabled button

I am having a textarea and a button. There are two classes buttonEnabled and buttonDisabled. I want to apply buttonEnabled only when there is some text in the textarea. So if user is typing in a textarea then button looks enabled and when he clears all the text either by selecting and cutting it or by backspace. I want my button to look ...

remove html <tags> from database-driven text within a wmd text-editor TEXTAREA

looking at this issue on stackoverflow, i got going in the right direction to what i'm looking for: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/652917/in-jquery-want-to-remove-all-html-inside-of-a-div i have a textarea similar to the following: <textarea id="inputPane" cols="80" rows="40" class="pane" style="height:300px;"> <table><tr><td> <b>...

jQuery - Clear textarea on focus

Im using a simple form with a textarea, when the users clicks onto the textarea I want the contents of the textarea to be cleared. Is this possible? ...

What is the current king of the hill for rich text textarea editors?

Hi all, Just wondering: what is the current king of the hill for rich text textarea editors? Last time i checked (years ago) it was TinyMCE, is there a better option now? Thanks a lot ...

Jquery: textarea preview (simple and small script)

Simple way to make a preview of a textarea? the code i have below wont format <em>i'm italic!</em> into italics. I'm not very good at js/jquery, and i don't know if the .replace() part is what i need to focus on or what. I've googled it and searched here and couldn't find a simple answer. $('.comment-block textarea').bind('blur keyup',f...

Copy textarea text to clipboard html / javascript

hey, i know there's lots of tutorials out there but none seem to be working for me. I have this : <textarea name="forum_link" type="text" style="width:630px; height:90px;"> [URL=http://www.site.net/video/&lt;?=$_GET['id']?&gt;/&lt;?=$_GET['tag']?&gt;]&lt;?=$video-&gt;title?&gt;[/URL] [URL=http://www.site.net/video/&lt;?=$_GET['id']?&g...

embed code in php

I have a form which allows the user to enter embed code from youtube. I also have an edit form which will allow the user to edit the size of the embed code (like the width and height: <object width="425" height="344">..) I used <textarea name="oldvideo" id="oldvideo"><?php echo embed; ?></textarea> However when I submit the form,...

How do I style the scrollbar of a textarea

I've got a textarea in a contact form which is styled with css, it looks great until i write more than the area can fit, when I do that a scrollbar appears and this scrollbar looks horrible with my dark styling (it's black with white text). So how would I go about to style this? I've googled some but haven't found any good answer just fo...

Jquery: a div that contains the value of a textarea, when i click on a word in the div, make it click there in the textarea.

I have a div that contains the value of the textarea on keyup, so as i type in the textarea, it's shown in the div, the div is a comment preview for the textarea. is it possible to emulate a click in the textarea when i click in the div? so if in the div i click on the word 'world' in the sentence 'hello world i am on you', then it would...

google chrome drag textfield

Im making a website, in one of my pages im using a textarea, but when im look in google chrome i can drag the textarea very big. is there a way to disable this? THNX! Stefan ...

Can I get access to htmlText setter code in textArea in Flex?

Greetings, I can see that when I set htmlText in a textarea control, the text property contains the html free version of the text. So there is a parser somewhere that is ripping of html from the content, which would be very usefull for my purposes. However, based on the flex source code, the setting of html is done in UITextField.as, w...

How to escape and unescape strings with jQuery and mySQL.

I have a field in my database that has a freetext area, and uses quotes for many things. On my website, that field is shown in a textarea, but I can't simply put the value between the textarea tags. I need to be able to set it with javascript. I use jQuery to do this, via: jQuery('#notes').val('{NOTES}'); Since the text can have sing...

IE readonly textarea problem

I'm seeing an issue in IE7 and IE8 (but not other browsers) with a textarea when I dynamically change its "readonly" attribute. The textarea is initially defined as being read-only, and when the user clicks inside the textbox I set readOnly to false. At this point, if I type any normal characters, they don't get displayed - in fact, th...