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Html Textarea queries

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posted 17 years ago

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Hi,
I would like to do the following with an html textarea which I want to use to display a large chunk of out to the user on the UI:
1) Allow the user to copy the text displayed in the textarea but prevent him from deleting.
2)Display the contents line by line not all in a single line.

Is there any way in which I can achieve these?

Thanks in advance,
Sunetra.

Srinivasa Raghavan

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Allow the user to copy the text displayed in the textarea but prevent him from deleting.

Try with readonly attribute. It works with textFields but not sure about text area.

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Sunetra Sen

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It works with textFields but not sure about text area.

It works with the textarea also.Thanks!

Anyone any idea about the other question?

Thanks in advance,
Sunetra.

Srinivasa Raghavan

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Text area normally shows the data in multipile lines, if the text being displayed in the textarea has a "\n" character in it.

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Sunetra Sen

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i tried the \n thingi..
but it doesn't seem to work

Srinivasa Raghavan

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This works

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Sunetra Sen

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Actually the situation is something like this:
I am getting the output of a batch file as an input stream in my servlet.I have a xml in which i have a tag like <result></result> in which I put the whole output.
Now I apply xsl and display this on the textarea.Here I want to break up the output from the batch file while displaying on the textarea into lines.
But am not able to do that.
Any help??

Niki Nono

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if you know where you need the newline then just insert "\n" there.

if the situation is something else then i havent got what you neeed exactly.

Life called,so here I am.<br />Cheers<br />Niki.:-)

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