[Zope] carriage returns and newlines entered into HTML form inputs

[Terry Hancock]

On Wednesday 14 May 2003 07:04 am, AdvertisingDept wrote:
> HTML Form contains a textarea inputs. 

> User wants to enter distinct 'lines'
> into a textarea input box

This is where the munging happens -- the HTML textarea
tag supports three different input specifications regarding
the presentation of carriage returns.  The default 
varies by browser.  Get an HTML reference and check
the tag for the attribute "wrap".  You probably want

wrap="physical"

whereas you are probably either using

wrap="virtual"

or else it is your browser's default (best not to leave
that to chance anyway).

So the database probably never saw the original
formatting.

At least this seems most likely to me.

Cheers,
Terry


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