How to add bullet on every enter event in text field

Question

Hello, Can someone please point me in the right direction. I am trying to add a bullet every time someone presses enter on the keyboard. this is within a textfield.
Thank you,
Howard

Answer 1

Hi
I would solve it by a script that checks your multiline field for newlines by ENTER key and insert "* " in the beginning of each line.
1) create a multiline field in your form
2) insert the script below in exit event... and enjoy the magic ;)
just 7 lines of code without comments. The split function is very powerful, I really use it alot now!
===== script start =====
//value of the field to insert "* " in each line
var sFldValue = this.rawValue;
//you split text in field for each '\r' = newLines made with enter
var tmpFldArray = sFldValue.split("\r");
//tmp string you concat your out text in
var sOutStr = "";
//for each line of text insert '* ' in beginning
for(var i = 0; i < tmpFldArray.length; i++){
//need to add '\r' because split removed it
sOutStr += "* " + tmpFldArray[i] + "\r";
//return manipulated string to your field
this.rawValue = sOutStr;
===== script end =====
/Thomas Groenbaek
Jyske Bank
Denmark