[Resolved] Javascript help. Totally confused.

chads2k2

I need some serious help here. I am banging my head against the wall on this one. Which I am never happy with. 😃

Ok so here is the problem that I am having. I am trying to write this script but in a dynamic way.

	<SCRIPT LANGUAGE='Javascript'>
	document.write('<XMP>')
	document.write('NRI2C35S1\r')
	document.write('--P5-NRI23CH02\r')
	document.write('\t-P5-2123\r')
	document.write('\t-P21-2178\r')
	document.write('--P14-NRI23CH01\r')
	document.write('\t-P13-2090\r')
	document.write('\t-P9-2089\r')
	document.write('--P32-2140\r')
	document.write('</XMP>')
	</SCRIPT>

I keep having problems when using echo, print(), sprintf(), printf(). Heck anything! It always takes the \r's and makes them CR's but in the source and that totally throws Javascript for a major fit about the \r's being converted. I tried to put them like this:

document.write("NRI2C35S1"+"\r\r")
and it failed horribly. It just dropped two lines instead of putting the \r in. So let me ask is there a display function that does NOT convert the \r into a CR and same with a \n?? Bascially if you run the above javascript you will see it displays a tabbed list. Which is important for my job I am on right now. Thanks so much!

Chad R. Smith

bastien

What is your goal here...I can't understand what it is you are after...

chads2k2

I am looking at making the statement :

document.write('NRI2C35S1\r')

and have the information hince NRI2C35S1 be dynamically drawn out of a database. But whenever I use echo, print(), or any others for that matter it converts the \r into a Carrige Return (CR) in the source and does not output this line in plain text.

document.write('NRI2C35S1\r')

I need the source to have that exactly in it. Now does this make sense? I need to know if there are any functions that does not process \r's or anything like that. A plain-text print statement. Think of it like that.

Chad

bastien

add an additional backslash to the statement...to get

document.write('NRI2C35S1\r') or replace the backslash with the \ the symbol for '\'

hth

chads2k2

Yeah tried that and got a error from Javascript:
unterminated string constant.

I have tried all the easy things that you can think of.

A combination of \ and others. They all have javascript errors. That is why I was looking for something that just prints clear-text type. Doesn't convert \r's into ANYTHING. Still up for ideas though.

Chad

AtroZ

Something like this should be enough...

<html>

<head>
	<title>THIS IS OK</title>
</head>

<body>

<script language="javaScript">

<?php echo "document.write('NRI2C35S1\\\r')"; ?>

</script>



</body>

</html>

chads2k2

Thank you both so much. It must have been being at work and on the same task for like 2 hours that really had me caught up. I had to expand a little on what you guys said. Here is the final solution to having a tabbed style to your PHP/javascript.

<html>
<head>
    <title>THIS IS OK</title>
</head>
<body>
<script language="javaScript">
document.write("<XMP>");
<?php
echo "document.write('NRI2C35S1\\r')\r";
echo "document.write('\t--P5-2105\\r')\r";
?>
document.write("</XMP>");
</script>
</body>
</html>

Thanks a million!

Chad