Hi.

Not sure I understand.

You have an editable field that you cannot type into? Do you get a blinking 
cursor in that field if you click inside it?

Perhaps some properties for that field are such that LC is preventing access?

Craig

> On Feb 14, 2023, at 3:35 PM, harrison--- via use-livecode 
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Greetings LC List Members,
> 
> I have to create a little chat program with LiveCode on a LiveCode server.
> Currently I have a textarea text box to accept the user’s input, but it won’t
> keep any formatting at all, not even carriage returns, line feeds, or bold
> faced text.  I also have to put that information into a database, so I can
> pull it out later.
> 
> How are you handling such things with LiveCode?  One would think that
> by this time we would have something simple that would deal with this!
> It has to be a common problem, and one would think their would be a
> common solution to it.
> 
> Suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Rick 
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