Re: textarea that works for blocks of text and keeps length of each line

[Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Its not clear to me as to what & how.  Would it be helpful to define the 
text area as fixed font? Then:
   <textarea rows="5" cols="50">
might work for you?


It looks like you may be wanting to use some variation of:

var strWholeText = "Your 250 char text...........";
var Line1 = strWholeText.substring(1, 50);
var Line2 = strWholeText.substring(51,100);
  ... to Line5
var strTextArea = Line1 + '<br> + Line2 + '<br>' ...

Word wrapping could be a problem.

On 10/24/2015 9:02 PM, Jim Franz wrote:
> Have a cgi web screen with various input fields plus a textarea of 5 rows,
> 50 cols (columns).
> The data field is 250 bytes.
> Moving the 250a to the textarea should always have byte 51 starting 2nd
> line, 101 starting 3rd line, etc.
> CSS controls colors, fonts, etc, but nothing specific to textarea.
> Chrome and IE don't match, and both jumble the appearance where the
> textarea is always shorter than the 50 characters (in IE, and longer in
> Chrome) and wraps to the next line.
> <sample>
> LINE1TENxxSECOND10xxTHIRD10xxx
> FOURTH10xxFIFTH10xxxLINE2TENxx
> SECONDTEN...
>
> There is plenty of room for the whole 50 bytes to fit within page.
>
> <td><textarea name="LONG" rows="5" cols="50"
> wrap="soft"><data></textarea></td>
> Many hours of google, w3schools,stackflow, etc and trying lots of stuff has
> not improved the issue.
> I have put textarea in it's own table, but no difference. I am assuming
> it's width affected by other input type="text" on same panel.
>
> Users really want the ability to paste in up to 250 bytes and then edit it
> into 5 lines of 50 (it's a description that comes from other sources).
> Later printed on form and the alignment in the textarea has to match
> print..
>
> This to me seems a standard data entry issue for web applications.
> Is "textarea" just unsuitable for this kind of entry? It worked better in
> older browsers.
> Has anyone found a definition that works in the current web world (this app
> is for customers and they have various browsers. App's been up for 16
> years.
> Jim