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chars missing in textarea

Hi I have a textarea in a form, the data used ind the field comes from an sql call. When i load the form not all text is displayed, just the first line. But when i press space, inter, backspace or another button, all text is displayed anyone have a solution! /RMalberg ...

Retrieving textarea contents with PHP. Getting added backslashes

I am building a web application that is supposed to make it easier for users to generate correct XML for a given utility. As a simple test, I created a textarea that contains the generated XML. I then created a button (<input type="button">) with a jQuery handler that will send the contents of the text area to my PHP application, which...

HTML Field for 96,004 Characters

I'm writing a small asp app to query a server. In order to query the script posts 2 values. One is an identifier of the user, and the second contains encrypted data. I don't need to decrypt the data, but the user has to be able to paste a string thats 96,004 characters long (or upload a txt file containing it). I standard html textar...

Textarea maximum in bytes

What's the largest number of bytes textarea can hold? Thanks EDIT I need it in the context of pasting to textarea from the clipboard. So, what's the max of the clipboard object? ...

Chrome resets the textarea scroll bar (scrollTop) when focus is called

Chrome (7.0.517.41 beta) (sometimes?) resets a textarea's scroll bar (scrollTop) when you call focus. Does anyone know if this behavior is deliberate, a known bug, or neither? It seems quite unintuitive; Firefox keeps it the same. A simple example is below: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHT...

how to remove the margin below a textarea inside a div wrapper (webkit)

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> </head> <body> <div style="background-color:#f09;"> <textarea></textarea> </div> </body> </html> Result in Chrome: Result in FF: ...

HTML textarea newline character

I have a text area in HTML where the user can enter text, but when the form is submitted, and its passed to a php script which echo's it, there aren't any newlines. Knowing that HTML does that, I tried doing a preg_replace() before echoing it... echo preg_replace("/\n/", "<br />", $_GET["text"]); but still everything is on one lin...

Flex embedded fonts cause tab characters to be stripped

I'm trying to paste text into a flex textarea. The text I'm pasting has newlines and tabs, but when I paste the text into the textarea, the tabs are stripped out. If I comment out the CSS line font-family: EmbArial; the tabs will be preserved. I tried using different font files, but it didn't help. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"...

Cannot save text with double quotes in Rails ActiveRecord

I have this text. . . "I got them from the Wicked Witch of the East, when my house fell on her and killed her," she replied. "Where did you get the mark upon your forehead?" continued the voice. "That is where the Good Witch of the North kissed me when she bade me good-bye and sent me to you," said the girl. Again the ...

populating a textarea with special characters.

I'm populating a textarea with previous input of a user. This is pulled from a database and set as the content of the textarea server side. It seems we are having an issue with a typo and a combination of special characters. if the user inputs &#6 originally, when I try to populate my textarea with that it just renders a little square...

textarea to list

textarea returns this [u'a\r\nb\r\nc\r\nd\r\ne'] what is the best way to turn that into a list ['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'] Thanks! ...

FF and IE - way of handeling \n in textarea

Im doing a textarea with jeditable. The content is saved and loaded from a database. But im having some problems in the way IE and FF handles linebreaks differently. After some debugging i've found a mysterious behavior in FF. For example if i input in textarea: 1 2 It will return 1<br>2 Which is fine. But if i write: 1 2 3 It ...

textarea inside a div

I want two side by side boxes in my page for placing the comment.One will show previous comments and should be disabled.other is for current users giving comments.I have done this using two divs and placing them side by side. one contains a textarea for placing the new comments.I am having trouble with the size of textbox and the scrollb...