dynamic textarea to display links

discosuperfly

I need to display the contents of a recordset/repeat region within a scrollable textarea. When I try this I end up getting the html with all its formatting instead of the links I want to display.

Here's my code that displays the links;

<?php do { ?>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><a href="news.php"><?php echo $row_rsNews['title']; ?></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><img src="images/clear.gif" width="5" height="5"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews)); ?>

How can I get this to display within a textarea? Is this even possible?

thanks in advance,
Troy

nemonoman

It might help if you included a textarea for the display
<textarea>your data here</textarea>

discosuperfly

Yes, sorry this is the code I was using.

<textarea name="textarea" cols="26" rows="15" wrap="VIRTUAL" class="nobord"><?php do { ?>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <td><a href="news.php"><?php echo $row_rsNews['title']; ?></a></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td><img src="images/clear.gif" width="5" height="5"></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<?php } while ($row_rsNews = mysql_fetch_assoc($rsNews)); ?>


</textarea>

and when it prints, I'm getting the results of the query plus all the html that goes along with it inside my textarea. How can I strip out the code but retain the formatting?

thanks,
Troy

crimaniak

Originally posted by discosuperfly
How can I strip out the code but retain the formatting?

thanks,
Troy [/B]

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.strip-tags.php

but I think maybe you need htmlspecialchars() really.

nemonoman

Textareas don't have formatting. They just display raw text.
The form area provided for creating these threads is a textarea.

I think what you're saying is that you want a formatted table to display in an area of your webpage, and that if the table is bigger than the area provided, you want the table contents to scroll.

If that's the case, you're describing an iframe. Google iframe.

discosuperfly

iFrame was exactly what I needed! thanks for your help.