TextArea formatting issue

[Matt]

I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
textarea?

Matt Williams

[WindAndWaves]

Re: TextArea formatting issue


"Matt" <mdwilliam@radf ord.edu> wrote in message
news:1105949241 .762366.56980@c 13g2000cwb.goog legroups.com...[color=blue]
> I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
> Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
> space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
> this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
> textarea?
>
> Matt Williams
>[/color]

What I found was that I had a statement like....

echo ' blab blaob
'.$mytext.'
and so on'

and that spaces were added because of the line and perhaps also the
'invisible' extra space in the document on those lines after the code.

I changed it to

echo 'bla bla '.$mytext.' bla bla'

and this helped - but I am only a novice novice, so dont take it too
serious.

[Matt]

Re: TextArea formatting issue

This would be my first suspicsion as well, but I entered my sample data
in the database by hand for testing purposes....... it has no extra
space appended to either sid of the text. I will try and draw what is
happening to my data
_______________ _______________ _________
| blahblahblahbla hb | ^ |
|lahblahblahbla hblahb | v |
----------------------------------------

[News Me]

Re: TextArea formatting issue

Matt wrote:[color=blue]
> This would be my first suspicsion as well, but I entered my sample data
> in the database by hand for testing purposes....... it has no extra
> space appended to either sid of the text. I will try and draw what is
> happening to my data
> _______________ _______________ _________
> | blahblahblahbla hb | ^ |
> |lahblahblahbla hblahb | v |
> ----------------------------------------
>[/color]

So where is the PHP code that you suspect is causing a problem?

NM

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[Rutger Claes]

Re: TextArea formatting issue

Matt wrote:
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> I have a textarea that is populated from a blob within a database.
> Everytime the data is pulled, however, there is always a lot of leading
> space characters before the actual text. It is not in the database
> this way, so how might I specify more formatting parameters within the
> textarea?
>
> Matt Williams[/color]
Make shure you put your text in the textarea as follows:
<textarea><?p hp print $content; ?></textarea>

and not
  <textarea>
   <?php
    print $content;
   ?>
  </textarea>

The second will produce spaces in front and at the end of $content;
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[porneL]

Re: TextArea formatting issue

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> Make shure you put your text in the textarea as follows:
> <textarea><?p hp print $content; ?></textarea>
>
> and not
>   <textarea>
>    <?php
>     print $content;
>    ?>
>   </textarea>
>
> The second will produce spaces in front and at the end of $content;[/color]

Not entirely, whitespace after ?> is removed.

and it should be:
echo htmlspecialchar s($content);

to avoid problems with <> chars in text.

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[Matt]

Re: TextArea formatting issue

Excellent!!! This fixed the last my problems within this app. I put
the statements inline and everything looks perfectly formatted.....
Thanks

Matt Williams