Thanks I am creating a content management system so I don't want to strip the HTML. I am also creating a "one page site" and got the suggestion to add it as plain text from this tut:
http://www.easycfm.com/coldfusion/forums/viewmessages.cfm?Forum=10&Topic=12469 >HTML is just text, so you store it in any of the text column types >(varchar, nvarchar, text, ntext). > >I have a comment form in a site that lets people add HTML markup to >the comment. I take this text, clean up the HTML, and put it into two >columns, a comment_html column and a comment_plaintext column that has >the HTML markup removed. Both columns are of type varchar(max). The >reason to store one comment twice is that not everything supports >HTML, such as SQL Server Reporting Services and third-party grid >controls. Storing a plain text version also allows for a >left(comment,100) type of function to show a preview of a lengthy >comment and could help with a text search feature. Instead of >stripping out the HTML tags for every data retrieval, I strip them out >once during the insert, which increases the size of the database but >speeds up data retrieval. > >The next most common method of storing HTML I believe is to store it >as XML. SQL Server 2005 introduced powerful and fast XML support, >although I would suspect this is overkill for what you are trying to >accomplish. > >I hope that helps, >Mike Chabot > > >> tGirl ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:318143 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
