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Remove hard carriage returns

I have a text area box where users can describe a problem their having, but the problem is when the data is posted to my autoresponder, the autoresponder doesn't like hard carriage returns. Is it possible to keep all data entry on one line, so change something like this:

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to this when the user submits:

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ramesh12

Use join command

Here take a look at this

http://www.learnasp.com/learn/stringjoin.asp

Instead of "," you use space " "

ramesh12

Oops sorry , not space use VBcrlf

lserrano

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I'm looking for some JS to do this. Does anyone have a JS script to handle this?

frox

Hi, I think you are looking for something like this:

This goes into the <head> section:

<script language="javascript">
function nocr()
{
with (document.form1)
{
for (var i=0; i < elements.length; i++)
{
if (elements[i].type == 'textarea')
{
elements[i].value=elements[i].value.replace(/\r\n/g,' ');
elements[i].value=elements[i].value.replace(/\n/g,' ');
alert(elements[i].value);
}
}
}
}
</script>

Change the <form> tag into:
<form name="form1" onsubmit='nocr()'>

This will change newlines to a space for all the TEXTAREAs in the form.

The two replace might seem redundant, but the first one works with IE, the second works with Netscape (at least in a not too old Netscape)

hope this helps

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frox

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