Live comment preview update

By Lisa on June 8, 2003 10:08 AM | techie stuff | Permalink | Comments (5) | TrackBacks (5)

Samuel made a change to the live comment preview code and I've installed it here. I'm going to document the change here in case I ever have to install it again.

Thanks for the fix, Samuel!

New and improved ReloadTextDiv code:

function ReloadTextDiv()

{

    var NewText = document.getElementById("DynamicText").value;

    splitText = NewText.split(/\n/);

    var DivElement = document.getElementById("TextDisplay");

    var i = 0;

    DivElement.innerHTML = '';

    for(i = 0; i < splitText.length; i++) {

      if(splitText[i].length > 0 ) {

        DivElement.innerHTML += splitText[i] + "<br />";

      }

    }

}

5 Comments

Samuel said:

I updated the code so it wraps each paragraph in paragraph tags instead of brackets. I was using the brackets to debug.

Oopsie...

June 8, 2003 10:16 AM

Samuel said:

You should take out the if statement inside that for loop, otherwise if you put in blank lines.

like that, it will trim them out.

June 8, 2003 2:10 PM

Samuel said:

It looks like MT trims them out any way. NeverMind (blame that one on Brad, it was his idea )

June 8, 2003 2:10 PM

kristine said:

ahhh, so is it cooler?

YOU are cool, that's for sure

June 8, 2003 8:52 PM

Lisa said:

I like it because it's a more accurate representation of the comment you're leaving.

I think you're really cool too!

June 8, 2003 9:31 PM

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