Greetings, This might be a pretty basic question not even totally rails specific, but how do I control text editing using ruby on rails? For instance, I am using the ruby forum http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/new as I type this and am typing into a textarea tag. I have this in my rails app and I want to know how to save the formatting - such as when I hit returns to go to a new line when I write. When I do it with the rails site I am working on, it ignores the returns etc. and jumbles it all together. Thanks, Jason -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
Just for debugging, output the text you are getting within a set of <pre></pre> tags. Web browsers are designed to ignore whitespace, and only follow formatting specified to them in markup rules. For a VERY simple way of at least getting the spacing right, either on save or when display the string, replace all instances of ''\n'' with ''<br />''. Example (in your view): <%= @myObj.text_area_value.tr ''\n'', ''<br />'' %> -Will On 1/15/06, Jason Pfeifer <jpfeifer@shaw.ca> wrote:> Greetings, > > This might be a pretty basic question not even totally rails specific, > but how do I control text editing using ruby on rails? > > For instance, I am using the ruby forum > http://www.ruby-forum.com/topic/new as I type this and am typing into a > textarea tag. I have this in my rails app and I want to know how to > save the formatting - such as when I hit returns to go to a new line > when I write. > > When I do it with the rails site I am working on, it ignores the returns > etc. and jumbles it all together. > > Thanks, > > Jason > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails >
Jason
When people enter text in a text area, they expect the result to look
like what they entered with proper line breaks, and indentations.
Problem:
- With plain text display + gsub(/\n/,''<br>''), you
loose the
indentation, but the line is correctly wrapped if it''s too long.
- With <pre>, line breaks and indentations work fine, but there is no
wrapping (1 paragraph --> 1 very long flat line).
(I think CSS3 will bring wrapping to <pre>)
The simplest solution I''ve found is an HTML editor.
TinyMCE
http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/
In a snap - 1 line - you tell it to HTML-empower all your textAreas, or
only the one with a given class, and voil?.
Note: I started using it yesterday so I can''t tell you much about its
limitations yet.
Alain