Rails spinoffs - Jan 2007 - Scriptacolous InPlaceEditor: Linebreaks are gone after submitting the form

Hi,

when using the Scriptacolous Ajax.InPlaceEditor I can use the
"loadTextURL"-Parameter to get a Text from a Database, which should be
displayed in a Form for Editing. After submitting the Form, the same
Text is displayed instead of the Form.

My problem is, that I''d need access to the Text, which is displayed
AFTER submitting the form. Is there a way to alter this text?

Background:
I store the text in the Database without any <br />-Tags, just
"\n"-linebreaks. When retrieving the text from the DB to display it in
the form, this keeps my linebreaks like they should. But after
submitting and showing the same text as "normal" HTML, all my
linebreaks are gone :-(

f.e. in the form, my text looks like this:
1st Row,
2nd Row,
3td Row.
After submitting the InPlaceEditor-Form, the same text is displayed
like this:
1st Row, 2nd Row, 3td Row

Does anybody know how to solve this? 

Have a nice day,
Daniel


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Hi,

my name is Daniel, this is my first posting into this list. 
Please excuse my poor english, I''m from germany, 
so this is not my mothertongue I''m writing in.

When using the Scriptacolous Ajax.InPlaceEditor I can use the
"loadTextURL"-Parameter to pull a Text out of a Database, which should
be
displayed in a Form for Editing. After submitting the Form, the same
Text is displayed instead of the Form.

My problem is, that I''d need access to the Text, which is displayed
AFTER submitting the form. Is there a way to alter this text?

Background:
I store the text in the Database without any <br />-Tags, just
"\n"-linebreaks. When retrieving the text from the DB to display it in
the form, this keeps my linebreaks like they should. But after
submitting and showing the same text as "normal" HTML, all my
linebreaks are gone :-(

f.e. in the form, my text looks like this:
1st Row,
2nd Row,
3td Row.
After submitting the InPlaceEditor-Form, 
the same text is displayed like this:
1st Row, 2nd Row, 3td Row

Does anybody know how to solve this? 

Have a nice day,
Daniel


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Two options come to mind:

1) IPE has a handleLineBreaks option which defaults to true. So, always 
have the server convert newlines to <br/> before sending the text (both 
in the original page load and in response to a submit) and remove the 
loadTextURL option (doesn''t seem like you need it in this case).

2) IPE uses Ajax.Updater unless evalScripts is true. So, pass an 
insertion function into ajaxOptions that will convert newlines into 
<br/> before calling Element.update.
ajaxOptions: {
    insertion: function(element,content){ 
element.update(content.replace(/\\n/gi, "<br/>")); }
}
This won''t work if you need evalScripts since IPE in all of
it''s
retardedness uses the same ajaxOptions for both the loadExternalText and 
the onSubmit... so you can''t have separate "parameters",
"onComplete"s,
etc.. Luckily Ajax.Updater is used by onSubmit so this is ignored by the 
loadExternalText Ajax.Request. However, if you are using ajaxOptions for 
loadExternalText this will be really confusing to other people, "Why is 
he specifying an insertion for an Ajax.Request?"

I''ll say it again, IPE needs to be rewritten.

Colin

halla wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> when using the Scriptacolous Ajax.InPlaceEditor I can use the
> "loadTextURL"-Parameter to get a Text from a Database, which
should be
> displayed in a Form for Editing. After submitting the Form, the same
> Text is displayed instead of the Form.
>
> My problem is, that I''d need access to the Text, which is
displayed
> AFTER submitting the form. Is there a way to alter this text?
>
> Background:
> I store the text in the Database without any <br />-Tags, just
> "\n"-linebreaks. When retrieving the text from the DB to display
it in
> the form, this keeps my linebreaks like they should. But after
> submitting and showing the same text as "normal" HTML, all my
> linebreaks are gone :-(
>
> f.e. in the form, my text looks like this:
> 1st Row,
> 2nd Row,
> 3td Row.
> After submitting the InPlaceEditor-Form, the same text is displayed
> like this:
> 1st Row, 2nd Row, 3td Row
>
> Does anybody know how to solve this?
> Have a nice day,
> Daniel
>
>
> >
>

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