jesse wrote:
I am creating a program, yet again. How this works is,
a zope factory calls a form, which submits data from a <textarea> to a DTML document. I want this DTML document to take the data from the form and display it on multiple lines. For instance:
If a person fills out the textarea like so:
First line second line third line
I want the DTML document to print out:
First line second line third line
The only problem is, when the <textarea> submits to the document, (lets say the textarea is called list), it submits it as a dictionary. That means all the data is on a SINGLE STRING. So the data from the form looks like this.
<dtml-var "REQUEST.form"> = {'list': 'first line/015/012second line/015/012third line'}
the /015/012 represent the line breaks.
Seeing this, i used the replace function in zope, trying to replace the line breaks with <br>, which would be accepted by html. however, whenever you try and access the information in the form as a string...
<dtml-var "REQUEST.form['list']">
it comes out with
line one line two line three
All the line breaks dissapear! So there is nothing to replace! Does anyone have any ideas how I could solve this problem?
if you're inserting data with a <dtml-var> you can take advantage of Zope's formating options one of which happens to be newline_to_br try <dtml-var "REQUEST.form['list']" fmt=newline_to_br> Kapil