Question

As suggested in the Problem TableMaintenaceViaForm i've created a Web. The only difference is that i have fields in the defined Form of type 'textarea' instead of 'text'.

Everything went well until i filled one of these fields with multiline contents.

I get Output like this:

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This are two lines of the search result. The second one is the one which forms the problem. The value 'Line 1 <newline> Line 2 <newline> Line 3' is the content of one field of type textarea.

Looking at the HTML source it seems significant that the second result line does not begin with a <tr>.

Also the <newlines> should be translated into <br>'s so that the height of the result line will be extended.

Any idea what went wrong ?

• TWiki version:Beta 20011120
• Web server: Apache
• Server OS: Sun OS
• Web browser: Netscape 4.77 (NT)
• Client OS: NT v4

-- PetricFrank - 27 Nov 2001

Answer

This is actually spec. It looks like you are using TWiki's table syntax together with multi-lines which is not compatible. TWiki's | .. | .. | table syntax requires that all cells of a row are on one line.

Sandbox.TestTextArea has a sample textarea.

Work around: Define an HTML table in %SEARCH{...} if you want to display a textarea in a table.

This brings up an enhancement request, Codev.RenderMultiLineTextAreaFormField

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Nov 2001