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When I copy and paste an article in the textarea box and sumit, the article's spacing is different. How do I prevent this from happening?
Mar 28th, 2003 02:44
Sergio Beristain, vorak seng, http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/text.html#h-9.3.4
When you copy paste an article into a text area it is possible that you
are submitting only the text and not the HTML.
So let's say that you are submitting "Here I am". The
file "<HTML>Here I am</HTML>" will be read as "Here I am".
The reason being that HTML does not format spaces.
So there are two ways to do this this:
1.- you can use the <pre> tag which allows you render the text exactly
as it is seen in the source:
"<HTML><pre>Here I am</pre></HTML>" to be seen as "Here I
am"
2.- The other option is to use a forced space entity " " :
So if you
have "<HTML>Here I am</HTML>" will be
read as "Here I am".
Disclamer: This will work on the assumption that the service in where
you are submitting your article/text does not strip tags (<pre>) or
converts special simbols ( ) into html entities.
