textarea /textarea problem!

Question

Hi! This might seem simple enough
but I can't seem to figure it out:
I have written a form in a jsp-page.
In the there are a couple of fields
and a textarea, i'm using the method
post. The thing is that when i process
the form-input all the carriage returns
in the textarea has vanished and the
text is displayed as if it were
written in one single row.
Why is this
and how can it be fixed?
/Andreas

Answer 1

Hi ,
try this...........
write a javascript method................
in the below method 'specialProvision' is the textarea name....
function formatText(){
     var frm = document.forms[0];
     var temp="";
     var i=0;
     var spProv = frm.specialProvision.value;
     while(spProv.indexOf("\n")!=-1){
          i=spProv.indexOf("\n");
          temp += spProv.slice(0,i-1);
          temp += "|||";
          spProv = spProv.slice(i+1,spProv.length)
     temp += spProv;
     frm.spProv.value =temp;
while sending it to the database say in in the save method....
function save(){
formatText();
document.forms[0].action = 'here your target path may be to a servlet';
document.forms[0].submit();
and while showing in the textarea use this method.................
showText('here your textarea value ie in the database');
// the text area value will be stored with ||| in between .....in the database....
function showText(val){
     while(val.indexOf("|||")!=-1){
          val = val.replace("|||","\n");
     return val;
and from the above method it will show as it is you typed into the textarea...............
if you still have pbs contact me at : [email protected]
Thank you
Ravikiran