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Embed an actual Href within a textarea within a form

I have a text area on a form where users can enter summaries. this form is submitted to a database. I have a web page that pulls the information from the db and displays it on the page.

My problem is if the user wants to make a reference to a link without actually writing the <a href...link...</a> in the text area.

Does anyone have any methods they can share with me as to how to handle this?

Thanks in advance

Michel Plungjan

You will need to agree on a way to pass it - for example [>address>text<]
and then do something like

newText = document.myForm.myArea.value

if (newtext.indexOf('[') !=-1) {
newText = newText.split('[>').join('<a href="');
newText = newText.split('>').join('">');
newText = newText.split('<]').join('</a>');
}

Red_Baron

You could just look for the general things that make up a url/hyperlink. The "www." or ".com,org,net" start/endings. Using mplungian's code above can also be used for this approach I believe.
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kaciebug

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this works however, I need to post this to the database in the html format so what actually appears on teh page after submission is an actual hyper link they can click on. Any thoughts will will be appreciated...

kaciebug

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Michel Plungjan

points, please

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