Formatting in a webpage

[k7l2010]

Hi
Please help, how does this code work? It needs fixing, please help

Web.Document.getElementById("T6").Value.replace(/\n\r?/g,"<br />")

[westconn1]

i would think that in VB6 you would a) have to replace each of the characters separately, b) that each would have to be enclosed in quotes and c) the correct format would be like
Web.Document.getElementById("T6").Value = replace(Web.Document.getElementById("T6").Value,"\n","<br />")

using regular expressions may provide some alternatives

[Phill.W]

Web.Document.getElementById("T6").Value.replace(/\n\r?/g,"<br />")

This code replaces any occurrence of a line feed character ("\n" = CHR(10)) optionally followed by a carriage return character ("\r" = CHR(13)) with an HTML Break entity ("<br/>"), which is how you do line breaks in HTML.

Not sure which platform this is intended for, though. Windows uses "\r\n" for its line breaks, Unix uses just "\n" and, IIRC, Apple uses "\r".

If I were coding this, I'd do something like this:

dim ele As Object : Set ele = Web.Document.getElementById("T6")
ele.Value = Replace( Replace( ele.Value, Chr(13), "" ), Chr(10), "<br/>" )
'                                        ^              ^
'                                        |              Replace line breaks with BR entities
'                                        Remove carriage returns completely

Regards, Phill W.

[techgnome]

This code replaces any occurrence of a line feed character ("\n" = CHR(10)) optionally followed by a carriage return character ("\r" = CHR(13)) with an HTML Break entity ("<br/>"), which is how you do line breaks in HTML.

Not sure which platform this is intended for, though. Windows uses "\r\n" for its line breaks, Unix uses just "\n" and, IIRC, Apple uses "\r".

If I were coding this, I'd do something like this:

dim ele As Object : Set ele = Web.Document.getElementById("T6")
ele.Value = Replace( Replace( ele.Value, Chr(13), "" ), Chr(10), "<br/>" )
'                                        ^              ^
'                                        |              Replace line breaks with BR entities
'                                        Remove carriage returns completely

Regards, Phill W.

Unless you want to be semantically correct about it, carriage returns solo should be break tags, while line feeds should be paragraph tags. But, as you pointed, out, it also depends on what the source material is. It's a potentially sticky wicket.

-tg