textarea curiousity

[Sheldon Glickler]

I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.

When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and recall
it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks like a large tab
spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it comes back the same way.
If I delete the leading stuff and save it again, it still comes back exactly
the same.

This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some leading
characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to display starting at
the left edge?

Shelly

[strawberry]

Re: textarea curiousity


Sheldon Glickler wrote:

I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.
>
When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and recall
it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks like a large tab
spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it comes back the same way.
If I delete the leading stuff and save it again, it still comes back exactly
the same.
>
This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some leading
characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to display starting at
the left edge?
>
Shelly

Not sure. I've seen this problem before though - and on those occasions
the culprit has been blank space or carriage returns in the html. Have
a look at the source code and see if there are any obvious spaces that
might produce this error.

[Rik]

Re: textarea curiousity

strawberry wrote:

Sheldon Glickler wrote:

>I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.
>>
>When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and
>recall it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks
>like a large tab spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it
>comes back the same way. If I delete the leading stuff and save it
>again, it still comes back exactly the same.
>>
>This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some
>leading characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to
>display starting at the left edge?
>>
>Shelly

>
Not sure. I've seen this problem before though - and on those
occasions
the culprit has been blank space or carriage returns in the html. Have
a look at the source code and see if there are any obvious spaces that
might produce this error.

Yup, when you try to format your HTML code nicely using:
echo "<textarea>
{$content}
</texteare>";
(or echo "<textarea>\n\t {$content}\n</textarea>";),
the whitespace will be saved.

Try echo "<textarea>{$co ntent}</textarea>";
And check the source indeed.

Grtz.
--
Rik Wasmus

[Sheldon Glickler]

Re: textarea curiousity

I ran another little test. I bypassed the database and simply sent the text
as an argument and retrieved it with $_GET. I also echoed the first three
characters. Here are the results:

1 - The cursor is initially positioned at column 3.
2 - If I backspace to column one and put in text, then the first three
characters match the text I put in. The cursor is positioned initially at
column three.
3 - If I don't backspace, the first two characters become blanks
(non-printable) and the display starts at column 5

Shelly

"Sheldon Glickler" <sheldonlg@as ap-consult.comwrot e in message
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>I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.
>
When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and
recall it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks like a
large tab spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it comes back the
same way. If I delete the leading stuff and save it again, it still comes
back exactly the same.
>
This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some leading
characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to display starting
at the left edge?
>
Shelly
>

[Sheldon Glickler]

Re: textarea curiousity

Yup. That was it. I put them all in-line and it is OK.

This is something that bugged me before and when I ran into it again, I
thought I'd ask.

Thanks.

Shelly

"Rik" <luiheidsgoeroe @hotmail.comwro te in message
news:79065$44bb b17a$8259c69c$2 2151@news1.tude lft.nl...

strawberry wrote:

>Sheldon Glickler wrote:

>>I use Dreamweaver as my development IDE.
>>>
>>When I create a textarea, put stuff in, save it to the database, and
>>recall it to the textarea later, it alway comes up with what looks
>>like a large tab spacing in the beginning. If I save it back, it
>>comes back the same way. If I delete the leading stuff and save it
>>again, it still comes back exactly the same.
>>>
>>This is only for the first paragraph so I suspect there are some
>>leading characters that I don't know about. How can I get it to
>>display starting at the left edge?
>>>
>>Shelly

>>
>Not sure. I've seen this problem before though - and on those
>occasions
>the culprit has been blank space or carriage returns in the html. Have
>a look at the source code and see if there are any obvious spaces that
>might produce this error.

>
Yup, when you try to format your HTML code nicely using:
echo "<textarea>
{$content}
</texteare>";
(or echo "<textarea>\n\t {$content}\n</textarea>";),
the whitespace will be saved.
>
Try echo "<textarea>{$co ntent}</textarea>";
And check the source indeed.
>
Grtz.
--
Rik Wasmus
>
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