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PHP - want to check if user input has website address in it

I want that whenver a user inserts "www." in a comment textarea, the address from "www." until the first space will be a replaced with a link to that address: "I love www.google.com" turns into "I love <a href="www.google.com">www.google.com</a>" Can you please tell me how to do this? (newbie) (sorry for posting the earlier question ...

Which textarea should i use to display data item in rows in flex3

I want to display the data as www.box.net/widget displays the data in the widget. How can i do it? am using flex3 . datagrid displays data in vertical manner .but i want the data to be dispalyed in a number of rows(one data item per row) . regards Vijayendra ...

To auto fill a text area using php curl.

Hi Friends, We are trying to auto populate a form which is having a text area. <textarea name="myarea"></textarea> We can do it using curl however it is accepting only the part of the input text. If the content is too large then it accepts nothing. There is no restriction with respect to number of characters on the text area. $area[...

jQuery wrap selected text in a textarea

how can i get the user selected text(just inside textarea) and apply actions to it something like wrap the selection [#bold]selected text[/bold] , thanks ...

JS to work inside a textarea?

I have no experience with using JS to work inside a textarea. I know it's doable as I've seen it. Links anyone? ...

How to move Autocomplete list with Cursor moving during typing in textarea ?

Hello , i'm use jquery autoCompelte plugin. and i want to move the list while typing in type text area after the line ...

Is there a profitable way to record user actions in textarea?

I need to send bunch of commands to the server on timer - like: put(0,"hello") del(4,1) put(4," is around the corner") so I need to monitor and record all of the user input and compile/flush it on the timeout (idle), something like macros. I can record all things happening onKeyUp/onKeyDown/onMouseDown/onMouseUp using textarea curso...

Making textarea display the same in WebKit as in other browsers

Webkit decided there weren't enough browser incompatibilities and added 2px of padding to my textarea. However, if I set padding:0 then it looks awful when typed in. Is there a way I can make it the same size without destroying the display? (It seems like -webkit-padding-start:2px and -webkit-padding-start:2px will fix the left and ri...

labels in textarea

<input name="textbox" type="text" value="Click here to type" onfocus="if(this.value=='Click here to type')this.value='';" onblur="if(this.value=='')this.value='Click here to type';"> ..onfocus/onblur work on textfields but not textarea elements. Is there any workaround, using jQuery maybe? ...

Dynamicaly Chaning the <textarea > size,style

How can i change the field size diynamicaly? I have a select field and there are 3 options with different values. So if the user selects one of them in the you see the values. But how can i change the size that the values from option field fits in the function changeText() { var select = document.get...

How to calculate the height of text (width fixed)?

I want to create a text box with a fixed width that will fit itself to its current text. So I went ahead and wrote this simple application: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <mx:Application xmlns:mx="http://www.adobe.com/2006/mxml" layout="absolute" applicationComplete="load();"> <mx:Script> <![CDATA[ private function load():voi...

textarea removes whitelines?

I have multiline textbox in ASP.NET which renders to a textarea element. I set the Text property to a string like test\r\n\r\n\r\ntest2 but it only renders like test test2 in the textarea while I expected something like this to be rendered: test test2 It seems the textarea eats the whitelines. How to overcome this? ...

How to get number of rows in <textarea >?

With javascript,is it possible? EDIT let me be more specific. I mean:the exact number of rows in a textarea. Here it's 10 rows in my post. Anyone knows? ...

Grabing text from non java application

Is it possible to grab textarea using java from another non-java application? Known way is OCR with java.awt.Robot in my opinion is too complex and non effective if grabbed area is in the minimized window. P.S. Linux environment is preferred but not mandatory for solution. ...

Flex: How to change caret (text cursor) in editable text area / text input

I need to put together an editable text area that has a custom caret (cursor) which is different from the default blinking vertical line. Is the caret a "skinnable" property of text input? Please note that I am not asking about the mouse pointer cursor which can be set using the CursorManager. Thanks. -Raj ...

jQuery auto expanding textareas acting strange

I have tried various different jQuery autogrow/expand text area plugins, and they all work good and well on the demo page but for some reason whenever I implement them into my existing site, they act very strange, this is what is happening: It works great, if you're manually typing in text and hitting enter after every line, however, i...

How to format text in flex TextArea?

TextArea in flex doesn't render <TABLE></TABLE>. I want to display text in textarea in two columns. Column1 Column2 Row1: Data, data, data row1 Row2 longer: Data, data, data row2 Depending on text width in Column1 text in Column2 will be shifted. So all rows in Column2 are going to be aligned. How can I do...

how to wrap textarea

how to wrap the text in textarea so that word will not be overflown to rightside and written in new line. ...

JavaScript Help

I am completely stuck on how to finish this problem... the question goes... Write a function quality Points that inputs a student’s average and returns 4 if the stu¬dent's average is 90–100, 3 if the average is 80–89, 2 if the average is 70–79, 1 if the average is 60–69 and 0 if the average is lower than 60. Incorporate the function int...

Text replacing with JS

I need to replace text entered in textarea with other characters, that I will call. For example, I need to replace the text, that I will enter to the textarea by clicking some button calls "change text" using JavaScript and it will change, for example, character "a" to "1", "b" to "2", "c" to "3" etc. ...