Re: How to allow users enters html links in text input area and h ow t o display it

[Bill Siggelkow <bi...@bellsouth.net>]

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:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 10:03 AM
> To: user@struts.apache.org
> 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:news@sea.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Bill Siggelkow
>>Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 9:37 AM
>>To: user@struts.apache.org
>>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
>>
>>
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