Confirmation page problem

[Guest]

I have written a form in FP 2002 that writes to a file and emails me. On this
form I have several fields one of which is a text area. In this text area the
user can type several paragraphs or press enter for a new line in the text
area. When submitted the form passes the information to a custom confirmation
page. All of this works great.

My problem is that on the confirmation page the field that corresponds to
the text area does not seperate the paragraphs. It mashes all of the text
like it does not recognize that enter has been pressed.

Can I fix this?? I cannot find anyway to format how the text is passed and
displayed on the confirmation page within this field. The emails that I
receive look great and the formating is perfect.

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

I'm not _absolutely sure_ this will work, because the "real" confirmation
page is actually a copy of the page you made but try this;

find the area where you're returning the text area, the confirmation field
with that form field's name. go into the code and put a <pre> before it and
a </pre> after it.

that _should_ at least maintain some formatting.

btw; I like to set text areas like this at 6 lines deep by 60 characters
wide.

HTH

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[Guest]

Chris thanks for your reply. <pre> help somewhat it did keep the breakup the
text. Unfortunetly now the text does not wrap. Is their an additional tag I
can add to force it to wrap??

Jimmy

 

[Chris Leeds, MVP-FrontPage]

you may be able to add wrap="virtual" to the text area, or make the text
area wide enough so that the user forces a break rather than running on.

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