Convert bold type to <b></b>

[BenDover]

Hi, is there an easy way to convert these character types to plain text markup?

,

etc

[BobWeaver]

I'm not all that up on my html tags, but I think

means line break right? If so, it can be easily converted using the substitute function. Just Do something like:

Substitute (TextField;¶;"

However, for formatting of bold underline and italics, which have both a start and end tag, it gets more complex. You have to use a fairly complex function;

Let([ 

k=TextField;

 a=Substitute(GetAsCSS ( k ); ["";""];[""";"""];["“";"“"];["”";"”"];

 ["<";""&Let([T="<"]; 

 [">";">"; 

S=PatternCount(T;"SPAN"); 

X=PatternCount(T;""); 

B=MIN(1;PatternCount(T;"WEIGHT: BOLD")); 

I=MIN(1;PatternCount(T;"STYLE:ITALIC")); 

U=MIN(1;PatternCount(T;"DECORATION:UNDERLINE"))]; 



 Case(X;T;S AND (B OR I OR U);"";S;"";T))&""]); 

 b=Evaluate("""&a&"""); 

 c="""&Substitute(b; ["";""];[""";"""];["“";"“"];["”";"”"];

 ["";""&Let([b="";T="[b][i][u]"]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/b][/i]";T="[b][i]"]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/b][/u]";T="[b][u]"]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/i][/u]";T="[i][u]"]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/b]";T=""]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/i]";T=""]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="[/u]";T=""]; 

 ["";""&Let([b="";T=""]; 

 ["  ";""];T&:&""])&"""

 ]; 

Evaluate ( c )

 )

I wrote the above function originally to convert formatted text to it's rtf tagged plain text equivalent. I modified it quickly tonight to html tags for , and . Didn't test it all that thoroughly. Hope it helps.

[comment]

Hi Bob, good to see you around again.

I'm not sure what's the purpose here - perhaps the poster would be satisfied with the results of just:

GetAsCSS ( Textfield )

[BobWeaver]

Hi Comment, thanks. I haven't really been too far away. Doing some lurking, but not posting. I just seem to have been out of the Filemaker loop for a while, and didn't see any threads that caught my interest.

About the GetAsCSS() function. Yes maybe that is all that's required. I didn't think of that until after I posted.