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problem with <br> tag inside <textarea> tag???

 
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Aug 26th, 2009
I have written some code for template generator but I am having issue getting the formatting when it is generated in the <textarea></textarea>.

I want to have it to look like

Service Affected: {then populated text}
Service Status: {again populated text}
Current/Next Actions: {populated text}

it ends up printing out the <br>

Service Impacted: data<br />Service Status : lost comms<brNext Action : carrier invest<br>

here is the code I have written.

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  1. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
  2.  
  3. <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
  4.  
  5. <head>
  6.  
  7.   <script language="JavaScript">
  8.  
  9.  
  10.   function generate()
  11.  
  12.   {
  13.  
  14.       var sms = ''
  15.  
  16.  
  17.  
  18.      var impact = document.sms.impacted.value;
  19.  
  20.      var status = document.sms.status.value;
  21.  
  22.      var action = document.sms.action.value;
  23.      var BR = '<br>'
  24.  
  25.  
  26. 	  sms = sms + '<textarea name="template" rows="10" cols="55">';
  27.  
  28.      sms = sms + 'Service Impacted: '+ impact + '<br />';
  29.  
  30.      sms = sms + 'Service Status  : '+ status + '<br>';
  31.  
  32.      sms = sms + 'Next Action     : '+ action +'<br>';
  33.  
  34. 	  sms = sms + '</textarea>';
  35.  
  36.  
  37.      document.getElementById('sms').innerHTML=sms;
  38.  
  39.      //document.getElementById('blank').innerHTML='';
  40.  
  41.   }
  42.  
  43.   </script>
  44.  
  45. <link href="scripts/imt.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  46.  
  47. </head>
  48.  
  49. <body>
  50.  
  51. <script type="text/javascript">
  52.  
  53. <!--
  54.  
  55.  
  56.  
  57. -->
  58.  
  59. </script>
  60.  
  61.  
  62.  
  63. <div id="page">
  64.  
  65.     <div id="wrapper">
  66.  
  67.         <div id="header"></div>
  68.  
  69.         <div id="topSpacer"></div>
  70.  
  71.         <div id="body">&nbsp;
  72.  
  73.         	<h2 align="center">The Fault logging assistant</h2>
  74.  
  75.         	<h3 align="center"></h3>
  76.  
  77. <form name="sms" action="">
  78.  
  79.  <table name="table" width="500" border="0" align="center">
  80.  
  81.   <tr align="center">
  82.  
  83.    <td colspan="2">
  84.  
  85.     <h3>SMS Template Genterator</h3>
  86.  
  87.    </td>
  88.  
  89.   </tr>
  90.  
  91.   <tr>
  92.  
  93.    <td><strong>Service Impacted: </strong></td>
  94.  
  95.    <td>
  96.  
  97.     <input type="text" name="impacted" value="">
  98.  
  99.    </td>
  100.  
  101.   </tr>
  102.  
  103.   <tr>
  104.  
  105.    <td><strong>Service Status: </strong></td>
  106.  
  107.    <td>
  108.  
  109.     <input type="text" name="status" value="">
  110.  
  111.    </td>
  112.  
  113.   </tr>
  114.  
  115.   <tr>
  116.  
  117.    <td><strong>Next Action: </strong></td>
  118.  
  119.    <td>
  120.  
  121.     <input type="text" name="action" value="">
  122.  
  123.    </td>
  124.  
  125.   </tr> 
  126.    <td><input type="button" name="button" value="Generate" onClick="generate()">
  127.  
  128.   <tr>
  129.  
  130.   </tr>
  131.  
  132.   <tr>
  133.  
  134.    <td colspan="2">    
  135.  
  136.     <span id='sms'></span>
  137.  
  138.    </td>
  139.  
  140.   </tr>
  141.  
  142.  </table>
  143.  
  144. <span id="blank"></span>
  145.  
  146. </form>
  147.  
  148.  
  149.         </div>
  150.  
  151.         <div id="bottomSpacer"></div>
  152.  
  153.         <div id="footer">
  154.  
  155.  
  156.  
  157.         </div>      
  158.  
  159.     </div>
  160.  
  161. </div>
  162.  
  163. </body>
  164.  
  165. </html>
Last edited by leviathan185; Aug 26th, 2009 at 9:32 am. Reason: remove personal info
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Re: problem with <br> tag inside <textarea> tag???

 
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Have you tried escape characters? \n ?
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inside quotes of use + /n

I tried it in quotes and it just printed .n in there as well. i tried with out quotes and the code did not execute
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Re: problem with <br> tag inside <textarea> tag???

 
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Hi,

try to re-apply few changes over lines':

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[

  function generate()
  {
      var sms = ''

     var impact = document.sms.impacted.value;
     var status = document.sms.status.value;
     var action = document.sms.action.value;
     var BR = '\n';
     
     sms = sms + '<textarea name="template" rows="10" cols="55">';
     sms = sms + 'Service Impacted: '+ impact + BR;
     sms = sms + 'Service Status  : '+ status + BR;
     sms = sms + 'Next Action     : '+ action + BR;
     sms = sms + '</textarea>';

     document.getElementById('sms').innerHTML=sms;
     //document.getElementById('blank').innerHTML='';
  }
// ]]>
</script>

hope it helps...
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Originally Posted by essential View Post
Hi,

try to re-apply few changes over lines':

<script type="text/javascript">
// <![CDATA[

  function generate()
  {
      var sms = ''

     var impact = document.sms.impacted.value;
     var status = document.sms.status.value;
     var action = document.sms.action.value;
     var BR = '\n';
     
     sms = sms + '<textarea name="template" rows="10" cols="55">';
     sms = sms + 'Service Impacted: '+ impact + BR;
     sms = sms + 'Service Status  : '+ status + BR;
     sms = sms + 'Next Action     : '+ action + BR;
     sms = sms + '</textarea>';

     document.getElementById('sms').innerHTML=sms;
     //document.getElementById('blank').innerHTML='';
  }
// ]]>
</script>

hope it helps...

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