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Firefox textarea typing causing screen shaking (firefox2 winXP)

EDIT: Firefox 2 windows XP Steps to reproduce problem: Firefox 2 and visit: http://resopollution.com/rentfox/html/property_setup.html Begin Typing and pressing [enter key] to create new lines After about 10 [enter key] presses you'll notice the screen shaking How this happened This began happening after I installed a plugin for jQ...

htmltext as object in flex

Hi Guys, is it possible to convert htmltext in object and move that object in textarea? Regards, Shivang ...

Javascript - Change font color of certain text in textarea

Is there any JS function that can change the color of certain text in a textarea? For example, blar blar {blar} blar, {blar}, including { }, will be in blue. Other words will be in blank. In other words, all I need is a function that can change color of all text in { }. I've done some studies and it seems that most people say it can't ...

Using a `<textarea>` to protect against scripts

Hmm. Instead of "defanging" input or using some kind of regex to remove tags, how safe is it to dump user stuff into a <textarea>? For example, say there's a PHP page that does the following: echo '<textarea>'; echo $_GET['whuh_you_say'] ; echo '</textarea>'; Normally this is vulnerable to xss attacks, but in the textarea, all scrip...

How to impose maxlength on textArea in HTML , Javascript

I would like to have some functionality by which if i write <textarea maxlength="50"></textarea> <textarea maxlength="150"></textarea> <textarea maxlength="250"></textarea> it will automatically impose the maxlength on the textArea. If possible please donot provide the solution in JQuery. Note: This can be done if i do something li...

How to get TextArea contents without error in IE?

I am using jQuery, and I get the contents of a TextArea as follows: // get the SQL from the text area at the top: //sql = $("#sql").val(); //sql = $("#sql").text(); sql = $("#sql").attr("value"); <textarea id="sql" rows="9" cols="99"></textarea> This works fine in all browsers except IE I have tried several ways, but nothing works i...

Javascript: calculating number of columns of a dynamically sized textarea

I've got an HTML textarea whose width is set to 100% of the browser window, using CSS. How can I calculate how many columns of text fit within the textarea? ...

Google Chrome textareas wrapping and adding line breaks - Help!

I've got a problem with textarea's in Google Chrome. I'm using classic ASP, but this is unimportant as Chrome is actually posting the data incorrectly. The problem is with a text area. As soon as a string of text is too long to fit one line of the text area, it wraps to the next line (as it should). My problem is that when submitted,...

Flex TextArea auto-resize behavior - is this possible?

For a multi-line TextArea Flex component, want to be able to keep entering text and have the TextArea auto-resize in the vertical direction so that all the entered text is shown at once. However, TextArea wants to push any components down in the layout flow. Instead, want the TextArea to extend over on top of them. Once the text entry is...

as3 textarea component: disallow user to enter a line break

Hy I'm trying to prevent the user to enter any form of line breaks in a as3 textarea component. I tried using the restrict param of the textarea like this: foo.restrict = "^/\r\n//\n/" but i don't have any success. Hope anybody can help me out on the correct way to do this. thanks in advance Milan ...

Jquery and formating a textarea for tagging ??

I am looking for a way to use a textarea and get the values separated by commas, and place them into the array. Really I am looking for how to auto format the textarea so when the user types something in it either forces or something a comma break. I want to use autocomplete, but I have no data to check it with since this will be a new...

Initiating a commandline tool from GUI

I want to fire a commandline exe with the parameters entered in GUI. The Process class can be used to fork my required commandline process from the java application. And I used the getInputStream() method of Process object to get the result and got it displayed in the GUI. private void confirmActionPerformed(java.awt.event.ActionEvent ...

enter does not work in textarea in Internet Explorer 8.....

Hi, When I press enter in a textarea which has whitespace attribute is set to nowrap through css, it is ineffective. No new line is created. Instread a simple whitespace appears. This is only true in IE8. I Have tried current version of Opera,Chrome and Firefox and I have not encountered such problems. Do you have some solution for this...

How to stop a webpage from executing javascript that resides inside a textarea or as value to input (type text) ?

I have an anoying problem with a page. If I have a textarea or textbox with its value (set on serverside) to eg. "alert('hello');" that script is executed upon load of the page. Well why dont you encode the string before you set it as value to the textbox you ask? Then special characters like åäö will also be encoded and thats a solutio...

Duplicate text from one textarea to another (hidden)

I have two input textareas, and the second one is hidden. Is it possible to automatically duplicate text typed in the first textarea to to the second? So far I can think of 1) javascript, but not sure how to implement that. 2) do something with my forms in php: $form['textarea1'] = array( '#type' => 'textarea', '#title' => 'title',...

Selectively enable enter key in HTML textarea (javascript)

Hi, I am using openjs.com's shortcut handling (1) to disable the enter key in my html forms. However, inside of textareas in those forms I want enter key to emit the normal CR-LF pair (because that's what users expect). At the moment assuming I have a form/input structure as follows: <form id="f1"> <fieldset> <input> <textarea i...

width:100% failed to make textarea as wide as parent element in IE6?

related snippet as follows: <textarea class="w100"></textarea> .w100 { width:100%; } It works in firefox but not in IE6, why and how to fix this bug? EDIT:AFTER ADDING A DIV,IT WORKS NOW. <fieldset> <div> <textarea class="w100"></textarea> </div> </fieldset> ...

<input> multi-line capable via CSS

Is there a way to get an <input />-field in HTML to wrap lines if the text is longer than the field using CSS? I don't want to use <textarea /> as I want to avoid users entering hard line-breaks by pressing enter. ...

Howto Place cursor at beginning of textarea

I've found a couple resources for how to place the cursor in a textarea at the end of the text, but I can't sort out a simple way to make it appear at the beginning. I'm prepopulating the textarea with some text and just want to make it easier on the users. ...

How to accept "enter" value?

I am using php5. I am doing a form, a textarea, where user can send it to his/her friends. But currently, in my textarea form, if i type : Hello XXX, Its been a while. How are you? But when I echo it, it displays Hello XXX, Its been a while. How are you? How do I accept the enter button, so that when I display I can d...