Re^5: Plain Text To HTML

Even here the text is not displayed as entered. The info on the copied Word document was in the form of a statement, a bulleted list, and another statement. Here is is shown as two sentences.

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Re^6: Plain Text To HTML by Maelstrom (Beadle) on Sep 21, 2024 at 07:57 UTC
• That’s because you submitted two sentences with some dots in them and not properly formatted html with <ul> and <li> • Had you done <pre> pastedtext </pre> the formatting would’ve been preserved • What you want is almost impossible from a back end program and a simple text area • have you tried pasting bold, italic or different fonts into your text area? Using the pre (for preformatted) tag is as close as you will get without implementing a WYSIWYG editor on your form	[reply]

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Re^6: Plain Text To HTML
by Maelstrom (Beadle) on Sep 21, 2024 at 07:57 UTC

    • That’s because you submitted two sentences with some dots in them and not properly formatted html with <ul> and <li> 
    • Had you done <pre> pastedtext </pre> the formatting would’ve been preserved
    • What you want is almost impossible from a back end program and a simple text area
    • have you tried pasting bold, italic or different fonts into your text area?

Using the pre (for preformatted) tag is as close as you will get
without implementing a WYSIWYG editor on your form

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