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Title: Display HTML on a form
Post by: JohanR on June 14, 2013, 02:41:08 AM: Hi,

I have a comment field that I would like to use to display some info to the user.
I have tried a variety of things but not getting the desired results.

How to display a piece of HTML on a form?

Do I use a text or display field?
Does it need complete HTML headers?

thanks

Johan
Title: Re: Display HTML on a form
Post by: Bruce on June 14, 2013, 03:30:22 AM: >> How to display a piece of HTML on a form?

use a form-field, "Display" type, with "Allow xHTML" turned on.

>> Does it need complete HTML headers?

no, it's not an HTML page, it's an HTML field. So just a simple HTML snippet will be fine.

cheers
Bruce
Title: Re: Display HTML on a form
Post by: JohanR on June 14, 2013, 03:59:20 AM: Hi Bruce

Exactly what I started with, but after that failed it went downhill from there.

All I am getting is the HTML being displayed in the field.

This is my field being loaded

loc:scr_memo = '<html>' & |
'Transaction failed' & ' ' & |
'Response :' & clip(cct:result) & ' ' & |
'Date :' & format(today(),@d05) & ' ' & |
'Time :' & format(clock(),@t06) & ' ' & |
'Result Code :' & clip(cct:code) & ' ' & |
'--------------------------' & ' ' & '</html>'

and this is from the browser firebug window

<div class=" vc_hdr_1" id="loc:scr_memo"><html>Transaction failed Response : Date :14/06/13 Time :01:53:36PM Result Code : -------------------------- </html></div>

Perhaps I am not formatting the string correctly?
The xHtml tick is def on.

thanks

Johan
Title: Re: Display HTML on a form
Post by: Bruce on June 14, 2013, 04:04:10 AM: xHTML <> HTML.
Your code is HTML, and it needs to be xHTML.

a simple

loc:scr_memo = p_web.HtmlToXhtml( loc:scr_memo)

may be enough - although it's certainly not a universal fix. (it just fixes some common mistakes like you using instead of .

If you still have no joy, edit one of the examples and post it.

cheers
Bruce
Title: Re: Display HTML on a form
Post by: JohanR on June 16, 2013, 12:39:06 AM: Hi Bruce

Thanks!
Sorry , forgot the crucial part about html and xhtml.

Changed my code, still did not work and eventually found the problem.

I started with the block of code with <html> and closed with </html>

The html tag not needed at all

Johan