I need heavy duty favor on a bulleted list

[chinedu]

I am working on cataloging items for a pharmaceutical company.

Basically, there are categories and products associated with each category.

I have worked out those nicely.

The problem I am having now is on product description.

The descriiptions are done in a bulleted formatlike:

. Mighty red dog
. The red nosed rendeer
. Beanies
etc..

My big worry is how to input these descriptions and have them appear in the format above.

I have tried entering them and using split function to split them at every ocurrance of . (dot).

That didn't work.

Then I tried coming up with this code in such that once descriptions for a product are entered, they appear in a bulleted list.

I am not getting any errors but the values being generated are not in bulleted form.

Can someone please help.

Here is the code I am using for creating bullted list.

Maybe this code should be in the insert page, not on the form input page.
strUserText = rs("catdescription")
strUserText = Replace(strUserText, VbCrLf, "<li>")

Then the code is invoked here:
[code]
    <tr>
      <td>Product Description:</td>
      <td> <textarea name="pdescription" cols="30" rows="5" value="<%=strUserText%>"></textarea>
    </tr>

Thanks in advance

 

[ChrisHirst]

I prefer to use a markup code for entry and storing in the db then have some functions that replace the markup with html on display, as in this post. thread333-893429

BTW your textarea code should be

      <td><textarea name="pdescription" cols="30" rows="5><%=strUserText%></textarea></td>

If this is your display code as well, html is not executed inside a text area everything is treated as plain text. So if that's where you are expecting to see the lists, it won't happen.


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[chinedu]

Wow, you guys are just too fast and too good in this forum.

Yes, you are right Chris, the way I was using it wasn't working.

It is working now, I had the code right, however, I was sticking the code on the wrong page plus what you just mentioned.

Thanks again.

I hope you gurus will be around when I get started on a huge project next month.

 

[DreXor]

also for formatting you could encase your strusertext in <UL> and </UL> and replace the dots/periods ( would be wiser to use a less commmon character like "pipe" ) with <LI> to make bullets via HTML

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