Rich Text Formating in a field

[Addam]

Hey Everyone!

I've got another humdinger!

Problem:

I have a web application that my clients have been using for a while. They came to me asking if we could make it so that they can put type in things like "Bolds, Colors, List items, etc.".

I know there are several ways to do this. They made mention that they liked the "yahoo" way of doing rich text work.

I was able to get my hands on a rich text web interface, but I wasn't quite sure how to get it to talk to FMP.

I'm not sure how they would like UBB Codes...

Has anyone had any success with this and FMP?

[Garry Claridge]

They can type in the html like <b></b>. You would have to use the [FMP-Field:myfield,raw] tag to display the data.

Not the full answer, however some Javascript or PHP can be used to enhance the capability.

Good Luck.

Garry

[Steve T.]

Hi, Addam! Hmm... I think Garry's idea is the best, but IMHO there's no good way I can think of. Even if you manage to do the <B> </B>, <I> </I>, or UBB code, etc., those tags will show up in your FileMaker data which will make it harder to work with outside the web. I couldn't think of a good way to uniquely tag/flag words for format (word count calc, fields w/values=various HTML tags [FMP-field:boldstart]words bolded[FMP-field:boldend], etc.) but maybe there's still a way... good luck! --ST