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Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in TEXTAREA in 2.7.2...


From: Foteos Macrides
Subject: Re: LYNX-DEV Bug in TEXTAREA in 2.7.2...
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 1998 17:41:04 -0500 (EST)

"Edward S. Marshall" <address@hidden> wrote:
>Just noticed a small problem with TEXTAREAs in lynx 2.7.2. The basic
>problem is that the default text of a textarea is incorrectly parsed, and
>multiple line breaks are merged into single breaks in the actual text.
>When this is resubmitted, the submitted data is visibly modified from the
>original text supplied. Submission does work properly (ie. if the data
>inputted to lynx has line breaks in the data, the submitted data has those
>line breaks).
>
>This behavior has not shown up on other browsers that I've tested with. It
>does show up with 2.7.1f, and presumably previous versions as well.

        Hmm.  It has always been that way, i.e., since Lou Montulli
originally added the TEXTAREA support in v2.3.   It's due to his using
strtok() calls for getting text between "\n" occurrences, which will
collapse serial ones.  Funny that nobody noticed it in the subsequent
5 years. :)

                                Fote

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