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Old 04-30-2006, 04:12 PM how to create breaks in blocks of text
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ive created a website that has a page to display news in, it is basically text and a picture. The problem i have is taht i want to have breaks in the text i.e. new paragraphs etc but i cant. i am using as access database and for this page it is a single table with three variables

NewsID - autonumber
NewsPic - text
newstext - memo

i have tried inserting the breaks as spaces and by pressing enter but no luck it just bunches all the text together.

I know there are lots of things wrong with the site and im working through them one at a time but if your interested here is the site

www.petwise.org.uk
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Old 04-30-2006, 04:45 PM Re: how to create breaks in blocks of text
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you either need to put the HTML code into the database or use placeholders in the database and replace them on display.

if the text in the memo field is formatted on entry with carriage returns and tabs you can do
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strText = objRS.fields("newstext")
strText = replace(strText,vbCRLf,"<br>")
strtext = replace(strText,vbTab,"&nbsp;"&nbsp;&nbsp;")
you could also enclose the text in <pre> tags to retain the text format then style the tag to suit
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Old 04-30-2006, 06:28 PM Re: how to create breaks in blocks of text
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where would i put this code
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Old 04-30-2006, 10:35 PM Re: how to create breaks in blocks of text
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Between the point at which you're retrieving the info and the point at which it's displayed.
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Old 05-01-2006, 07:41 AM Re: how to create breaks in blocks of text
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please exscuse my ignorance but i can not find where to put this code. below is the code for the page in question

<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT"%>
<!--#include file="Connections/Petwise.asp" -->
<%
Dim rsNewsView
Dim rsNewsView_numRows

Set rsNewsView = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
rsNewsView.ActiveConnection = MM_Petwise_STRING
rsNewsView.Source = "SELECT * FROM News ORDER BY NewsID DESC"
rsNewsView.CursorType = 0
rsNewsView.CursorLocation = 2
rsNewsView.LockType = 1
rsNewsView.Open()

rsNewsView_numRows = 0
%>
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html><!-- InstanceBegin template="/Templates/Main.dwt" codeOutsideHTMLIsLocked="false" -->
<head>
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="doctitle" -->
<title>Petwise</title>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable --><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<link href="PetStyle.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
<!--
function MM_preloadImages() { //v3.0
var d=document; if(d.images){ if(!d.MM_p) d.MM_p=new Array();
var i,j=d.MM_p.length,a=MM_preloadImages.arguments; for(i=0; i<a.length; i++)
if (a[i].indexOf("#")!=0){ d.MM_p[j]=new Image; d.MM_p[j++].src=a[i];}}
}

function MM_swapImgRestore() { //v3.0
var i,x,a=document.MM_sr; for(i=0;a&&i<a.length&&(x=a[i])&&x.oSrc;i++) x.src=x.oSrc;
}

function MM_findObj(n, d) { //v4.01
var p,i,x; if(!d) d=document; if((p=n.indexOf("?"))>0&&parent.frames.length) {
d=parent.frames[n.substring(p+1)].document; n=n.substring(0,p);}
if(!(x=d[n])&&d.all) x=d.all[n]; for (i=0;!x&&i<d.forms.length;i++) x=d.forms[i][n];
for(i=0;!x&&d.layers&&i<d.layers.length;i++) x=MM_findObj(n,d.layers[i].document);
if(!x && d.getElementById) x=d.getElementById(n); return x;
}

function MM_swapImage() { //v3.0
var i,j=0,x,a=MM_swapImage.arguments; document.MM_sr=new Array; for(i=0;i<(a.length-2);i+=3)
if ((x=MM_findObj(a[i]))!=null){document.MM_sr[j++]=x; if(!x.oSrc) x.oSrc=x.src; x.src=a[i+2];}
}

function MM_goToURL() { //v3.0
var i, args=MM_goToURL.arguments; document.MM_returnValue = false;
for (i=0; i<(args.length-1); i+=2) eval(args[i]+".location='"+args[i+1]+"'");
}
//-->
</script>
<!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="head" --><!-- InstanceEndEditable -->
</head>

<body onLoad="MM_preloadImages('images/button-home-down2.png','images/button-news-down2.png','images/button-products-down2.png','images/button-game-down2.png','images/button-findus-down2.png','images/button-contact-down2.png')">
<table width="930" border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0">
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="40" height="139" class="BorderTopLeft">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="850" height="139" class="Header">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="40" height="139" class="BorderTopRight">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="40" height="30" class="BorderUpright">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="850" height="30"><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','home.html');return document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image1','','images/button-home-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-home-up2.png" name="Image1" width="145" height="30" border="0" id="Image1"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','news.asp');return document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image2','','images/button-news-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-news-up2.png" name="Image2" width="141" height="30" border="0" id="Image2"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','products.asp');retur n document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image3','','images/button-products-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-products-up2.png" name="Image3" width="141" height="30" border="0" id="Image3"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','game.html');return document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image4','','images/button-game-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-game-up2.png" name="Image4" width="141" height="30" border="0" id="Image4"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','find.html');return document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image5','','images/button-findus-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-findus-up2.png" name="Image5" width="141" height="30" border="0" id="Image5"></a><a href="javascript:;" onClick="MM_goToURL('parent','contact.asp');return document.MM_returnValue" onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('Image6','','images/button-contact-down2.png',1)" onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"><img src="images/button-contact-up2.png" name="Image6" width="141" height="30" border="0" id="Image6"></a></td>
<td width="40" height="30" class="BorderUpright">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="40" class="BorderSpacer">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="850"><!-- InstanceBeginEditable name="Content" -->
<table width="850" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<td width="20" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
<td height="40" colspan="3" align="left" valign="top" class="HeadingNews">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="20" rowspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td width="500" align="left" valign="top" class="TextMain"><%=(rsNewsView.Fields.Item("NewsT ext").Value)%></td>
<td width="20">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="290" align="left" valign="top"><img src="<%=(rsNewsView.Fields.Item("NewsPic").Value)% >"></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="3">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
<!-- InstanceEndEditable --></td>
<td width="40" class="BorderSpacer">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
<tr align="left" valign="top">
<td width="40" height="40" class="BorderBottomLeft">&nbsp;</td>
<td width="850" height="40" align="center" class="BorderBottom"><a href="sitemap.html">Sitemap</a> | <a href="privacy.html">Privacy Policy</a> | Copyright &copy; 2006 </td>
<td width="40" height="40" class="BorderBottomRight">&nbsp;</td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
<!-- InstanceEnd --></html>
<%
rsNewsView.Close()
Set rsNewsView = Nothing
%>
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Old 05-01-2006, 07:44 AM Re: how to create breaks in blocks of text
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i have tried to place it just before the the dynamic text line 81 but all i get is the page displays but the text doesnt and placing just after creating the recordset the page doesnt display at all
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<td width="500" align="left" valign="top" class="TextMain"><%=(rsNewsView.Fields.Item("NewsT ext").Value)%></td>
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