- From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@curia.ucc.ie>
- Date: 23 Sep 1996 15:01:29 +0100
- To: pam@lampinc.com
- Cc: www-html@w3.org, dlc@leight.lampinc.com
Is there any way to give a browser user a way to edit text that is more than one line long? The TEXTAREA tag does not support VALUE=, and INPUT with TYPE=TEXT is limited to 1 line. Yes, but I guess it has to be generated dynamically from script: echo \<textarea name=\"file\" rows=\"10\" cols=\"40\"\> cat foo.bar echo \</textarea\> or something. Nottalottagood if you want to give someone lots of text, but I suppose you could try <img src="foo.doc"> and make your server emit Content-Type: application/msword and rely on users having their browser configured to pop up Word :-) Netscape Gold already has an "editor" enclosed. Surely it could have a "Save back to browser" option under File? Others: why not ship a copy of something small and light but good at editing plaintext, like PFE, and preconfigure content type application/x-plaintext to pop it up, and fix it to write back to the browser. ///Peter
Received on Monday, 23 September 1996 10:03:54 UTC