[FX.php List] Keeping text formatting from a FM field

[Kevin Futter]

On 28/05/08 10:12 AM, "Bob Patin" <bob at patin.com> wrote:

> I'm trying to display text just as the client entered it, but when I
> try nl2br() I get the carriage returns and not the bolding.
> 
> Then I tried htmlentities(nl2br()) but that didn't work, and in fact
> removed the carriage returns.
> 
> I searched my emails but couldn't find the solution; how do I do this?
> 

Bob, do you mean just as the client entered it into the FileMaker field? If
so, then there's no way to do that via the XML interface, as what's applied
in FileMaker is internal styling. I get around this with one of our
solutions with a series of 'style' buttons (bold, italic, etc), each of
which runs scripts that take the highlighted text and wraps it in the
appropriate HTML tags (<em>, <strong>, etc). These are then output as the
appropriate HTML and rendered accordingly.

-- 
Kevin Futter
Webmaster, St. Bernard's College
http://www.sbc.melb.catholic.edu.au/


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