Hit a little bump in the web browser. Seems like <a> tags, when displayed inside a textarea form field, are stripped of their href attribute. That makes editing bad links impossible.
To be clear: I can successfully enter html tags using a text area. But if my blog system displays an existing post inside a text area, the href attributes will not be displayed. I just see <a> and </a>.
Probably I can make a work around by looking for the danger UserAgent, and then replacing <a> tags with something else (maybe [a]) and then resubbing on form submission, but that seems like quite a hack for something that should work. Bummer.
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To be clear: I can successfully enter html tags using a text area. But if my blog system displays an existing post inside a text area, the href attributes will not be displayed. I just see <a> and </a>.
Probably I can make a work around by looking for the danger UserAgent, and then replacing <a> tags with something else (maybe [a]) and then resubbing on form submission, but that seems like quite a hack for something that should work. Bummer.
- jim 10-05-2002 9:15 pm