More clarification.

The form input is sent to a program on a web server to be processed and displayed as a part of a webpage that the site user will see. The form input might be simply typed into the 'text area' or a document might be copied and pasted into the 'text area'. In either case the final product for display will require some HTML formatting. Anyone that is authorized can post info for display at our website and the method must be simple, either type info into the form or copy and paste something into the form. In either case it is unlikely there will be any HTML formatting. Consequently we need to be able to format the input with the program that is accepting the input before it is displayed.

Hope this makes clear what it is that I am trying to do.

In reply to Re^2: Plain Text To HTML by Milti
in thread Plain Text To HTML by Milti

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