New Line / Textbox and Javascrip

[Microsoft Newsserver]

Hi Folks

I cant get access to books on line at the moment but I cant get to this
newsgroup, so I have a question.

We are passing a string of text to a textbox from which the value is popped
up by the web page if there is anything in it.

The problem is we want to have newlines "\n" in the javascript alert, but
these are treated literally in the translation. What can I do to ensure the
new lines make it into the alert.

this.MyTextBox. Text = "LineOne\nLineT wo";


///// ON CLIENT SIDE

alert( $get(MyTextBox) .value );


Thanks

[George]

Re: New Line / Textbox and Javascrip

The \n is so called escaped characters and process by the compiler.

For example:
s = 'aaa\nbbb';
alert(s)
will show you 2 lines because when compiler compiles
s = 'aaa\nbbb' it will replace \n with 0x0A.

when you have code like this
alert( $get(MyTextBox) .value )

The MyTextBox.value is not proccessed by compiler so the value shown as it
is.
so the MyTextBox.value should already have the 0x0A in it (and not \n)

So try to put it there like this (in C#)
this.MyTextBox. Text = "LineOne\x0ALin eTwo";

It might not work though if MyTextBox is a input type="text" and not
<textareasinc e <input type=textis a single line textbox.


George.






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Hi Folks
>
I cant get access to books on line at the moment but I cant get to this
newsgroup, so I have a question.
>
We are passing a string of text to a textbox from which the value is
popped up by the web page if there is anything in it.
>
The problem is we want to have newlines "\n" in the javascript alert, but
these are treated literally in the translation. What can I do to ensure
the new lines make it into the alert.
>
this.MyTextBox. Text = "LineOne\nLineT wo";
>
>
///// ON CLIENT SIDE
>
alert( $get(MyTextBox) .value );
>
>
Thanks
>