Text Area Problem

<textarea cols='80' id='"ckeditor"' name='"ckeditor"' rows='"20"'>
.....content... <textarea id="emailbody"></textarea>...content....
</textarea>

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 05:14

blindmoe

Joined: 07/02/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Text Area Problem

I have run into this same problem. I thought I could get around it by using a div tag for the editor but then when the form is submitted, the information in the div is not sent to the server obviously because it is not a form element. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 08:10

uniden

Joined: 26/01/2010

Posts: 12

Re: Text Area Problem

<html><body> 
<textarea id="a">
  test a
  <textarea id="b">
    test b
  </textarea>
</textarea> 
</body></html>

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 20:59

blindmoe

Joined: 07/02/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Text Area Problem

The solution to this turned out to be quite simple. I use php to output my code and using the function:

htmlspecialchars()

on the content before sending it to the browser fixed the issue. An example would look like this:

<textarea class='editor' rows='10' cols='60'><?php echo htmlspecialchars($content); ?></textarea>

Another important command to run if you are pulling from MySQL is stripslashes()

<?php
$content = stripslashes($content);
$content = htmlspecialchars($content);
?>

<textarea class='editor' rows='10' cols='60'><?php echo $content; ?></textarea>

Hope this helps some people out!

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 21:32

bricktop

Joined: 07/02/2010

Posts: 2

Re: Text Area Problem

Yes, that may correct that issue, but correct me if im wrong, when outputting that code to page, the browser will not render it as html code, rather as just text. It will output "<textarea...>" rather then an actual textarea.

Sun, 02/07/2010 - 23:07

blindmoe

Joined: 07/02/2010

Posts: 3

Re: Text Area Problem

When you output to the actual page ( the one a visitor would see, not the ckeditor page ) you use stripslashes() but not htmlspecialchars().

When you output to the edit page ( the one with ckeditor ) you use both stripslashes() and htmlspecialchars().

This is not just an idea, I am using it in a small CMS I wrote and everything is working as it should.

Fri, 03/30/2012 - 16:14

m22s22

Joined: 19/01/2012

Posts: 4

Re: Text Area Problem

works perfect! thanks blindmoe