Thursday, August 23, 2007
Function to replace Carriage return to
in HTML TEXTAREA
Function to replace Carriage return to BR in HTML TEXTAREA
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Function to replace Carriage return to
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//My adaptation of his code. He had an incomplete for loop in his code.
function replaceCarriageReturn(emailBody,replaceWith)
{
emailBody = escape(emailBody); //encode all characters in text area to find carriage return character
for(i=0; i < emailBody.length; i++) {
//loop through string, replacing carriage return encoding with HTML break tag
if(emailBody.indexOf("%0D%0A") > -1) {
//Windows encodes returns as \r\n hex
emailBody=emailBody.replace("%0D%0A",replaceWith)
}
else if(emailBody.indexOf("%0A") > -1) {
//Unix encodes returns as \n hex
emailBody=emailBody.replace("%0A",replaceWith)
}
else if(emailBody.indexOf("%0D") > -1) {
//Macintosh encodes returns as \r hex
emailBody=emailBody.replace("%0D",replaceWith)
}
}
emailBody=unescape(emailBody) //decode all characters in text area back
alert(emailBody);
}
input type="button" onclick="replaceCarriageReturn(form1.body.value,'br />')" value="Replace Carriage Returns with Html Break Tag">
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