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carriage return in popup window is gone

I use JS popup window in cold fusion page.
when i click the text link, the notes shown up in popup window, all the carriage returns are gone.
when i use
"select notes from stunotes"
in SQL query analyzer, the carriage returns are there.

Any idea is highly appreciated. Thanks.

WJ53

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wj53

ASKER

Hi FranzRinkleff ,
you understand it correctly. That's exactly what the problem is.
I will try the <textarea> first. if I draw the textarea the same size as the window, it seems like it should fit the window.
Thanks,
WJ53

wj53

ASKER

in the textarea the carriage return is taken care of automaticlly. But after i add the textarea in "popnote.cfm", it looks not pretty at all. Outer layer is popup window, inside is iframe, inside is textarea. I know little knowledge about JS. do you how to get rid of iframe and only leave textarea in the window? Thanks.

//notelist.cfm
<script>
function showPopupWindow(url, top, left, width, height) {
....

newwin.document.write('<iframe width='+(width-10) +' height='+(height-50)+' src='+url+'></iframe>')
newwin.document.write('<br><center><a href="#" onClick ="window.close();return false;">')
newwin.document.write('<img src="images/close.gif" border="0"></a></center>')
...
</script>

<html>
<body>
<a href="http://www.mysite.com/popnote.cfm?notekey=#notekey#"
onClick="JavaScript:showPopupWindow(this.href,100,100,500,600); return false">#Trim(smallnote)# </a>
</body>
</html>

//popnote.cfm
<html>
<body>
<body>
<cfquery>...
</cfquery>
<cfoutput query="FULLNOTE">
<textarea name="textBoxDesc" rows="25" cols="38">#note#</textarea>

</cfoutput>
</body>
</html>

wj53

wj53

ASKER

I find out if i use textarea in the popup window, it's a temptation to add something or modifiy it there. Eventhough any modification is discarded, i think i have to SQl solution.

the note is saved as text data type. how to add chr(13) for each carriage return?

wj53

ASKER

I went to SQL forum and found answer to replace this trick text date type with <BR>.
If anyone is interested in the answer, pls go
https://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qManageQuestion.jsp?ta=mssql&qid=20182000

FranzRinkleff, i will pass my points to you in a few days. Just don't like to see my points decrease too much in a day. :-)

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Thanks.
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