Textarea in textarea

hello,

i've been using FCKeditor for some years in my web-projects and love it very much.

however, since i wanted my users to design forms within FCKeditors, i've got a problem:
if a user inserts a textarea, it is saved and displayed correctly in my output. when the user wants to edit the form again in the CMS, everything after the textarea ist cut off, because the browser thinks the surrounding textarea (which is FCKeditor) is closed by the </textarea>-tag that was inserted by the user in the first time.

i'm using the ReplaceTextarea()-method to run FCKeditor. is there a way to solve this problem and using this method?

thanks a lot & greetings,
lola

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 19:52

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: Textarea in textarea

The problem is that you must escape the content of the main textarea. Try to validate the HTML of your page.

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 22:54

lola1983

Joined: 03/12/2007

Posts: 2

Re: Textarea in textarea

thank you for your quick reply.

i'm quite familiar with html, but escaping contents is new to me. i can only think of using < instead of <, but this would corrupt the code ...

thanks again,
lola

Mon, 12/03/2007 - 23:36

alfonsoml

Joined: 31/12/2006

Posts: 3735

Re: Textarea in textarea

no, that's the correct way to insert html in a textarea ->
<textarea..>
<p>This is...