how to save text

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hi i'm working on a poem site. everything is ok but i dono how to save the poem with the style which is applied in the text area. so anybody have any idea. sorry for my english.

thanks in advance

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nirosh wrote:

hi i'm working on a poem site. everything is ok but i dono how to save the poem with the style which is applied in the text area. so anybody have any idea. sorry for my english.

thanks in advance

Data type of the column in which you are saving the poem should be 'TEXT'.

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thank you for the reply. already the data type is text.but that won't work for me

nirosh

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if what you want is to save the style of the text (like bold, italic, font size, etc.) you either need to use some html directly (quite ugly for your users) or an "improved" text area field. i used http://tinymce.moxiecode.com/ and it's good, but there are many others.

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thank you eugenio.what i mean is not the font style.i need to keep the poem structure and i want the Google Indic support which is used for Asian language pack. finally i want to keep the poem structure only. all the other features has been implemented.

thank you nirosh

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Are you refering to the line breaks? In the output you must replace \n with the <br /> tag, as HTML does not interpret new line characters. For instance <%= @poem.body.gsub("\n","<br />") %>

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Thanks buddy. its working great. thank you very much.

nirosh

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Maybe try something like RedCloth or TinyMCE

I haven't personally used either, but they look like something that might help you.

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Maybe try something like RedCloth or TinyMCE

I haven't personally used either, but they look like something that might help you.

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For starters you can look at the simple_format text helper in Rails. You can do <%= simple_format(h(@poem.body)) %>

Franz