populate cftextarea on cf8

[Snazzo]

I am attempting to populate a cftextarea tag with html from a coldfusion object. I keep getting an error because of the html content in the database.

Any suggestions?

[SafariTECH]

If the content in the DB contains characters that would affect the generated html tag(s), then that is likely why it is not working.

Try URLencoding the data before placing into the textarea and see if it works. If it does, then you will have to scrub the data before it is entered into the field each time; unless you are missing something particular for your CMS editor.

[Snazzo]

I suspect that is what is happening, so I did try to URLencode the data, and it populates, but it paces the URLencoded value into the editor, when I want it to show the original html inserted.

[Newsgroup_User]

try using
<cftextarea ...
value="#jsStringformat(noteOBJ.getNoteContent())#"></cftexarea>
instead of
<cftextarea ... >#jsStringformat(noteOBJ.getNoteContent())#</cftexarea>

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

[Snazzo]

I tried using the value attribute with jsstringformat and with urlencoded value and they don't populate the editor with html. jsstringformat populates with the slashes still in the text.

Any other ideas?

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

have you tried it *without* jsstringformat()/urlencoded ()?

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com

[Snazzo]

Not sure what I did, but using the value with no jsstringformat()/urlencoded () now works. Thank you for your help!