Rails spinoffs - Sep 2005 - Edit In Place: text with line breaks

All,

I need to apply EditInPlace to a block of text that has line breaks.
I''d like to have the editable text load instantly by grabbing the text
from the page instead of using the "loadTextURL" option. However, this
will pull in the html formatting ( <br> and <p>).

Wanted to see what ideas the list had as far as making this possible -
the best idea I''ve had so far are to have loadTextURL call a
javascript function to substitute <br>s and <p>s with line breaks.
I''ve also seen that Flickr stores text to be edited in a Hash so line
breaks aren''t removed.

Any ideas?

Derek
-- 
Derek Haynes
HighGroove Studios - http://www.highgroove.com
Keeping it Simple.
404.593.4879

I think the easiest solution is to use textile on the server side and
use loadTextURL to load in the verbatim textile content from the
server. Is there a specific reason you don''t want to use loadTextURL?

I suppose we could add explicit support for paragraph breaks with an
option. Is this something a lot of people would want?

On 9/13/05, Derek Haynes <derek.haynes@highgroove.com>
wrote:
> All,
> 
> I need to apply EditInPlace to a block of text that has line breaks.
> I''d like to have the editable text load instantly by grabbing the
text
> from the page instead of using the "loadTextURL" option. However,
this
> will pull in the html formatting ( <br> and <p>).
> 
> Wanted to see what ideas the list had as far as making this possible -
> the best idea I''ve had so far are to have loadTextURL call a
> javascript function to substitute <br>s and <p>s with line
breaks.
> I''ve also seen that Flickr stores text to be edited in a Hash so
line
> breaks aren''t removed.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Derek
> --
> Derek Haynes
> HighGroove Studios - http://www.highgroove.com
> Keeping it Simple.
> 404.593.4879
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