textarea question

ade1982

I am just inputting things into a database, and some of the data I have to input is in the form of a list. Unfortunately, the person who made the list (my predecessor) has done it incorrectly and it's of the form

1. Blah <br>
2. Blah2 <br>
3. Blah3 <br>
...

etc, instead of a properly formatted <ol>.

Any ideas how I might go about doing it properly, and inputting it into the database? Is the correct way of doing it to:

remove the numbers and <br> tags
insert an <ol> and </ol>
insert a <li> tag at the start of each item
upload the HTML and data to the database field

or get the data into plaintext and then add the HTML tags when retrieving it?

Either way, I don't know how to go about coding it, so please help, as it is really holding me up! (already a month late in delivering it!)

Piranha

I would defenetley get the data into plaintext and add the HTML tags when retrieving. Then you can change the formatting later on. And above all, you can use the data for other things if you need it in the future.

ade1982

This is what I assumed (although I don't think it will be used for anything else).

Now it's just the matter of not knowning how to actually code any of it!