justify form textarea

[Dylan]

How?

It's puzzling me |knockout|

[Dylan]

Just to clarify, you know what
p align = justify
does right ?

Well, I want to do that to the text in a textarea

[venturi]

Give this a try, not sure if it will work though...


<textarea style='text-align:justify;' rows='#' cols='#'>stuff in text area</textarea>

[Dylan]

After a bit of googling I found it can't be done using simple methods. One method I came across is the use of javax.swing.JTextPane |pissed|

I'm hoping there are easier methods I have not come across.

[Entreri]

I don't think it is feasible with a plain textarea. You may want to use a Javascript-based replacement for textarea (with all the possible browser issues it may bring).

Here's one that I found out (but didn't try). With it, it will allow the writer to justify the text amongst other things.

http://www.codeproject.com/jscript/htmlArea.asp

From there, perhaps you could search for a Javascript that strictly does justify formatting... You didn't specify why you needed that though - if it's from a GUI perspective, you might want to do your form in Flash, although I can't bear those. :)

Entreri.

[Porn Meister]

Well.. considering that the old align=justify aligns to the left and right margins, I would say that venturi's method should work just fine. Just add the margin sizes also to the style tag..
Seems like it should be fine..?

[miracle]

Not sure if justification can be done in a textarea. I know only of the wordwrap parameter. But you can have a look at microsoft's MSDN library at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp

Click on the left menu:
+ Web Development
++ HTML and CSS
+++ HTML and DHTML reference
++++ Objects
+++++ textArea

There you should find everything textarea tag supports.

Hope that helps,
Mark

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by miracle
Not sure if justification can be done in a textarea. I know only of the wordwrap parameter. But you can have a look at microsoft's MSDN library at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp

Click on the left menu:
+ Web Development
++ HTML and CSS
+++ HTML and DHTML reference
++++ Objects
+++++ textArea

There you should find everything textarea tag supports.

Hope that helps,
Mark
According Miracle's link the simple solution Venturi proposed should work... |waves|

[GeorgeTH]

Originally posted by GeorgeTH
According Miracle's link the simple solution Venturi proposed should work... |waves| Quote myself - LOL! Now to the practical experience: according to the new gallery I made yesterday it doesn't work! At least I didn't get it to work... (it's the first time I'm using a textarea on a gallery).