you should probably start looking at FCKEditor or TinyMCE or the like. You're recreating the wheel here.
On 8/24/07, Matthew Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, to make it a bit more difficult... :) > > How would I ignore inserting carriage returns is the carriage return > comes after a "<ul>", "<li>", "</li>", or "</ul>"? > > This is so that the site owner can edit the text on the front page of > the website themselves. There is a <ul> in the current text. > > Thanks! > > -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Harrison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, August 24, 2007 11:42 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: replace carriage returns > > How would I replace the carriage returns in a textarea entry with <br>? > > <cfset > newstring='#REREPLACE("#REREPLACE("#Trim(form.mystring)#",""","""", > "all > ")#","#chr(13)#","<br>","all")#'> > > This will do carriage returns and quotes to you can pass the data around > in > forms. Keep in mind, however, if you stick <br> into a DB and pull it > back > to a form for edits later, you need to convert the <br> back to carriage > returns. The string below will do that: > > #REREPLACE("#myoutputstring#","<br>","#chr(13)#","all")# > > Hope that helps. > > > Robert B. Harrison > Director of Interactive services > Austin & Williams > 125 Kennedy Drive, Suite 100 Hauppauge NY 11788 > T : 631.231.6600 Ext. 119 > F : 631.434.7022 > www.austin-williams.com > > Great advertising can't be either/or... It must be &. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Check out the new features and enhancements in the latest product release - download the "What's New PDF" now http://download.macromedia.com/pub/labs/coldfusion/cf8_beta_whatsnew_052907.pdf Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:287059 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4