Ok, Given your goals then, I think that using a WYSIWYG editor would be far simpler than having to instruct your users on a complex scheme of delimiters to get the desired visual result.
With something like CKEditor (a version of which is available natively in ColdFusion 8 and up - http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/Tags_t_02.html) you can let your users enter text directly as you would want it to show up on the page, in a tool similar to MS Word. You can even restrict them to only having access to certain Style Elements such as the heading tags and un-ordered lists. If you need any help getting it up and running just let us know. =] On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Teed Younger <teedyoun...@hotmail.com>wrote: > > Ok this is an application I built myself that essentially builds new html > pages via input forms stored as cf variables. The goal of this particular > piece of code would ultimately be that the user can create a list or > multiple lists dynamically. Here would be a quick example of how one current > might look on our site. > > Osram > 11324 > 11324-10 > 11324-15 > > Eiko > 11224 > 11225 > 11226 > > Ushio > 22357 > 22357/35w > 22357/50w > > Now each names above would be the brand name so to speak, with each > underlying numbers part numbers for their corresponding brand names. > > The brand names would be displayed in lists and heading tags, then the > numbers displayed in just plain list items. > > I couldn't think of any easier way for the data entry to be done other than > a textarea form field, since there may be 1 lists like above, or there may > be 20 lists like above. Thats why, as you see, I tried to specify different > delimiters so that the text to be displayed as brand names would loop > through and be the first of each list and get styled with the heading tags. > > I also thought about using arrays for this application, but I'm fairly new > to arrays and cfloops, and this seemed much easier th work through. > > Again, it IS display a listbased on the text in the textarea, but I have > yet to get it to display it properly as the example above. > > I hope this makes it more understandable. Thanks again! > > > > > As an alternative... > > > > Given what you are trying to accomplish and not knowing all of your > > goals > > this may not work, but it's an option. > > > > Have you considered giving your users access to a WYSIWYG editor such > > as > > CKEditor (http://ckeditor.com/) or the many other offerings around > > these > > days: > > http://www.queness. > > com/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors > > > > <http://www.queness. > co> m/post/212/10-jquery-and-non-jquery-javascript-rich-text-editors>With > > a WYSIWYG editor, you users can create the literal HTML you're trying > > to > > output, rather than parsing through the text to display it. > > > > =] > > > > -- > > Alan Rother > > Manager, Phoenix Cold Fusion User Group, www.AZCFUG.org > > Twitter: @AlanRother > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:340308 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
