Help Needed: Inserting Hyperlinks into <cftextarea richtext="true">

[David_W__Gilbert]

All - I have into an issue in which we can enter the hyperlink address into a <cftextarea richtext = "true"> but the hyperlink doesn't become active after entering it and/or hitting the space button. Has anyone run into this? Is there a fix? We are using the browser Firefox. We are not using IE.

Code Below:

<cftextarea richText="true" name="OperDesc" id="Desc" height=150" width="770"/>

[Dan_Bracuk]

Does it become active if you submit the form and output the form field?

[David_W__Gilbert]

Hi Dan,

In answer to your question. The answer is no. I tried both methods noted below:

http://www.boeing.com/boeing/

<a href="http://www.boeing.com/boeing/">click on link</a>

[Dan_Bracuk]

What html gets generated from the form submission?  In other words, do the same thing and view the html source from your browser.    

[David_W__Gilbert]

This what generated from the Web Developer > Page Source. As you can see there doesn't seem to be an http://www.boeing.com/

this is what I got when I tried insert it using html code such as a <a href="http://inside.boeing.com">click</a>

&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.boeing.com">click</a>

Sort of strange.

[Dan_Bracuk]

So it encoded some characters but not all?  That's odd.  It shouldn't have encoded any.

[David_W__Gilbert]

Thanks for your help. If come up with anything let me know...