Solved - Re: Javascript / AJAX / Textarea problem

[Gary Stainburn]

Thanks for the help. The problem was that I had added 

white-space: nowrap;

to the style to try to prevent word-wrap. Instead I should have added

wrap=off

to the textarea object


On Thursday 14 May 2015 11:35:38 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> I've simplified this to:
>
> form.config.value="mary\r\nhad\r\na\r\nlittle\r\nlamb";
> form.config.value="mary\nhad\na\nlittle\nlamb";
> form.config.value="mary<br />had<br />a<br />little<br />lamb";
>
>
> The form is:
>
> <form name=clientConfigForm id=clientConfigForm method=post
> 	onsubmit='baculaClientConfigUpdate(); return false;'>
> <input type=hidden name=client value='' />
> <textarea name=config wrap=off style='width: 100%; height:440px;
> 	overflow: auto; white-space: nowrap;'></textarea>
> <br />
> <input type=submit value=Update />
> </form>
>
>
> as suggested all over the place, but in all cases, the text still appears
> on one line
>
> On Thursday 14 May 2015 10:42:35 Gary Stainburn wrote:
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > At some point the following code stopped working properly, but I don't
> > know when.
> >
> > Now when I try it, both on Firefox and IE all of the text appears on the
> > first line. I've checked the source text and it has newline characters
> > (I've also changed them to CRLF which made no change).
> >
> > When I update form.config.value the contents are correct and contain the
> > \n when inspected using FireBug, but they appear wrong with everything on
> > one line.
> >
> > Anyone got a clue how to fix this for both Firefox and IE.  I've found
> > loads of stuff on Google, except the answer
> >
> > Gary
> >
> >   AjaxRequest("/hardware/ajax"+debug+".html?baculaClientConfig="+name,
> >      function(xmlHttp) {
> >        if(xmlHttp.readyState==4) {
> >          var form = document.getElementById("clientConfigForm");
> >          if (form)
> >            form.config.value=xmlHttp.responseText;
> >        }
> >      },false);
>
> --
> Gary Stainburn
> Group I.T. Manager
> Ringways Garages
> http://www.ringways.co.uk



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Gary Stainburn
Group I.T. Manager
Ringways Garages
http://www.ringways.co.uk