Thanks for your help Bill -Amar -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:54 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How to allow users enters html links in text input area and h ow t o display it
Well, text in a text area is not HTML markup -- it's just text -- to render the links you will have to output the data using bean:write filter="false" -- since you need to preserve line breaks take a look at this thread http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=struts-user&m=106685398105831&w=2 Good Luck! Bill Jirole, Amar wrote: > We are displaying the text in text area as well. The reason we are > doing this is we want to preserve para and other formatting info which > gets lost in plain bean:write > > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:03 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to allow users enters html links in text input area > and h ow t o display it > > > Hmmm -- if a user enters the following into the text area: > > My favorite site is <a href='http://struts.apache.org'>Struts</a> > > Then you render this using <bean:write filter="false"/> it should > work. > > If the users are just entering the URLs (the http://... part) then you > will need to generate the "<a href" part yourself. > > Jirole, Amar wrote: > > >>The links are displayed as plain text and nothing happens when I click >>it (of course because its treated as plain text) >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow >>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:37 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: Re: How to allow users enters html links in text input area >>and how t o display it >> >> >>Jirole, Amar wrote: >> >> >> >>>Hi All, >>>Our users would like to enter urls in the text input area and when >>>click the link bring up the page. I tried using filter="false" for >>>bean:write but that did not work. We use simple struts-jsp >>>architecture. Any ideas? Thanks in Advance -Amar >> >>I have done this before without issue -- please clarify "did not work" >>-- also, take a look at the page source of the generated page -- this >>should clue you in to what is happening. >> >>Bill Siggelkow >> >> >>--------------------------------------------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
