Re: textarea that works for blocks of text and keeps length of each line

Now I feel better...i kept thinking there is some majic undocumented way of
doing this. I can tell you that 16 years ago when the app was built, it
worked..or at least no noticed reports of the issue.
Thanks

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From: WEB400 [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Turner
Sent: Sunday, October 25, 2015 5:29 AM
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] textarea that works for blocks of text and keeps
length of each line

I once spent many moons trying to fathom out a good way to do this but
eventually gave it up as a bad job. I had reams of JavaScript catering for
the various scenarios but it never quite hit the spot, and become confusing
for the user. In my case the data came from a legacy file that had multiple
50 character fields that had to be put together for editing in the text area
and disassembled back into individual fields after editing. It was, sad to
say, a futile exercise. Text areas are just not suited to that sort of
thing.

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On 25 Oct 2015, at 02:03, Jim Franz <franz9000@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Have a cgi web screen with various input fields plus a textarea of 5
rows,
50 cols (columns).
The data field is 250 bytes.
Moving the 250a to the textarea should always have byte 51 starting
2nd line, 101 starting 3rd line, etc.
CSS controls colors, fonts, etc, but nothing specific to textarea.
Chrome and IE don't match, and both jumble the appearance where the
textarea is always shorter than the 50 characters (in IE, and longer
in
Chrome) and wraps to the next line.
<sample>
LINE1TENxxSECOND10xxTHIRD10xxx
FOURTH10xxFIFTH10xxxLINE2TENxx
SECONDTEN...

There is plenty of room for the whole 50 bytes to fit within page.

<td><textarea name="LONG" rows="5" cols="50"
wrap="soft"><data></textarea></td>
Many hours of google, w3schools,stackflow, etc and trying lots of
stuff has not improved the issue.
I have put textarea in it's own table, but no difference. I am
assuming it's width affected by other input type="text" on same panel.

Users really want the ability to paste in up to 250 bytes and then
edit it into 5 lines of 50 (it's a description that comes from other

sources).

Later printed on form and the alignment in the textarea has to match
print..

This to me seems a standard data entry issue for web applications.
Is "textarea" just unsuitable for this kind of entry? It worked better
in older browsers.
Has anyone found a definition that works in the current web world
(this app is for customers and they have various browsers. App's been
up for 16 years.
Jim
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