Show HTML in a textarea

HTML & CSS
1

Hi All

I am pulling a terms and conditions page from my DB and showing it in a textarea.

Is there anyway to show it with the HTML formatting.

Any help would be great.

Many Thanks

mrmbarnes

2

give us your code and some database info first, we need something to see off of it, cant just read your mind inside the db

3

This is more a general question but sure, here’s some code…


$termsandconditions = "<P align=left><B>1.</B> Information on prizes and how to enter form part of these terms and conditions.</P>
<P><B>2.</B> Entry into the competition deems acceptance of these Conditions of Entry.</P>
";



<textarea name='terms' cols='78' rows='8' class='formtext'>$termsandconditions</textarea>
4

Hi,
This should really be moved to a HTML or CSS specific area within the forum, but here goes anyway:

You can’t put HTML content within a text area because it’s displayed as-is (e.g. HTML source).

What you can do is to create a div of a fixed size with the overflow set to scrolling, for example:


<style type="text/css">
div.terms
{
  width: 20em;
  height: 15em;
  overflow: auto;
}
</style>

<div class="terms">
  Terms and conditions<br />
  <br />
  <br />
  Blah blah.. <img src="/whatever.png" alt="blah" />
</div>

Note that the ‘auto’ value for overflow means the browser will only display scroll bars if the content is wide/tall enough to be scrolled in that direction, to force scrolling you can use the ‘scroll’ value instead.

Ta,

  • Harry :stuck_out_tongue:

References:
http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_overflow.asp

<edit>
Hookem: please… be creative and use those brain cells :smiley:
</edit>

5

Perfect, Thanks a lot!