[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread Zhao Yi
Ryan Bigg wrote: > no, you don't have to write the \n. > > When people type new lines it automatically puts in the \n, or in some > cases a \r\n. > > This means simple_format will work. > - > Ryan Bigg > Freelancer > http://frozenplague.net thanks it works. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-fo

[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread Ryan Bigg
no, you don't have to write the \n. When people type new lines it automatically puts in the \n, or in some cases a \r\n. This means simple_format will work. - Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net On 08/01/2009, at 1:18 PM, Zhao Yi wrote: > > Ryan Bigg wrote: >> simple_forma

[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread Zhao Yi
Ryan Bigg wrote: > simple_format(your_text_here) > - > Ryan Bigg > Freelancer > http://frozenplague.net In this way, I have to write \n in the textarea which is not a good user interface. How can I do some background job to replace the textarea before it is submitted? -- Posted via http://

[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread Ryan Bigg
simple_format(your_text_here) - Ryan Bigg Freelancer http://frozenplague.net On 08/01/2009, at 1:00 PM, Zhao Yi wrote: > > srj wrote: >> You should not try that because the text area is designed to wrap >> text >> automatically - there really are not new line characters in the text >

[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread Zhao Yi
srj wrote: > You should not try that because the text area is designed to wrap text > automatically - there really are not new line characters in the text > area, unless you manually inserted them. In that case, they should > remain. I have input "\n" at each line of the text, but it doesn't wor

[Rails] Re: A problem of ignoring newline in textarea

2009-01-07 Thread srj
You should not try that because the text area is designed to wrap text automatically - there really are not new line characters in the text area, unless you manually inserted them. In that case, they should remain. On Jan 7, 9:21 pm, Zhao Yi wrote: > I use text_area_tag in a view page and when