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Posted by: kingmaruthu Jan 10 2008, 02:58 AM

Is it possible to create a table inside a text area. or similar such control ?????

Posted by: Darin McGrew Jan 10 2008, 03:18 AM

No, a http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/forms/textarea.html element can contain only plain text.

Posted by: Frederiek Jan 10 2008, 03:19 AM

No. See http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/tables/table.html.
Unless you want to show the code of a table in a textarea.

Posted by: kingmaruthu Jan 10 2008, 03:57 AM

so does it mean, I need to search for alternate means like ajax or innerhtml / ihtml ?????

Posted by: kingmaruthu Jan 10 2008, 03:59 AM

Cool !! what r the other means !!! then

Posted by: Darin McGrew Jan 10 2008, 04:13 AM

The other means to what end? What are you trying to do?

Posted by: Christian J Jan 10 2008, 12:04 PM

If you want a scrollbar around a table you can use CSS "overflow".

A textarea is meant for entering form data. If you want to enter the form data in table cell format, you might put one textfield or textarea inside each table cell.

Posted by: shankar from vizag Aug 6 2019, 08:41 AM

Greetings,

I want to place a big html textarea with some options like Bold, Italic, Linespacing, Fontsize, Font color, Insert table just similar to this page. with which user can edit the entered text inside the textarea.

Is this possible ?

regards

Posted by: pandy Aug 6 2019, 09:12 AM

Yeah. We've done it.

There are ready-made scripts for that you can use. I don't know what's hot ATM. Here's one, but I don't know if it's a good one.
https://www.sceditor.com/

Posted by: Christian J Aug 6 2019, 09:25 AM

I think pandy means that you can use "BBCode", which is basically any kind of markup that users can type in a text field. For example, this forum uses

to mark up bold text. Scripting then changes the BBCode into real HTML/CSS.

Just beware of allowing users to type real HTML, like


since it can be used for malicious code injection (unless you only allow a very limited whitelist).

Posted by: pandy Aug 6 2019, 10:39 AM

No. I meant that there are ready-made editors (or what they should be called) that you can use with your own forum, blog or page comments or whatever it is you are creating. Like a component you can include in your own code. I'm not totally sure any more that the one I linked to works that way.

BB-code isn't of much use if nothing interprets it. You could write your own, of course, but I got the impression that wasn't on the table. Maybe I'm wrong.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 6 2019, 04:06 PM

I was think more of the general principle of using (non-HTML) markup, wether you create it yourself or use someone else's.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 6 2019, 04:08 PM

This can be a bit tricky though: how is the user going add content into the table cells? But inserting a table already containing content (like this week's calendar?) should be possible.

Posted by: pandy Aug 7 2019, 09:48 AM

How do you mean? We can create a table here.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 7 2019, 10:33 AM

Can we? How?

Posted by: pandy Aug 7 2019, 06:47 PM

Hmm, it seems we can't. I thought that worked at all forums of this type. It has been around forever. The bbCode is the same as in HTML but with square brackets.

Posted by: Christian J Aug 8 2019, 05:14 AM

Aha! Haven't seen that before. I can imagine it's easy to make mistakes constructing it though (just like when writing ordinary HTML tables).