Textarea problem on forms...

Not sure if others have spotted this but
when I upgraded my site I had chunk loading into a textarea

Before in 1.0.0. it looked fine... now it takes out the extra returns and condenses it!

Can you please tell me how to fix this... Or do I need to submit a JIRA bug??

Thanks Paul

hmmm. extra returns? Looks like you have one of revisions from svn, right? Where did you get the distribution?

Looks like it is MODX-948 work.

You can check with old one file http://svn.modxcms.com/crucible/browse/~raw,r=6041/modx/branches/1.0.x/manager/includes/document.parser.class.inc.php
If no problems after this, I’m right.
Note, that this file only for checking the problem. Because it has more than one change.

Tried your suggestion & it hasn’t fixed anything.... must be something else!

Here is some screenshots of the problem....

You used the WYSIWYG editor? (TinyMCE for example)

once I turned on the WYSIWYG TinyMCE I got the plain code in the chunk...

ie... it put in all <p>
tags...

Hope this helps!

Thanks Paul

Have a work-a-round in place for this...
As I don’t have the kudos to know why it is doing what it is doing!

But my Modx EVO 1.0.2 doesn’t like textarea boxes.....
when I loaded a normal html chunk in one, the html code didn’t get processed along with the page....

SO I have used a css property to load it instead....

.newtextarea {
width:150px;
height:150px;
overflow:scroll;
}

which does load the chunk fine!

Hope somebody with real brains can give an explanation for this behaviour?
as I said before it wasn’t the document.parser.inc.php
because I swapped that to the old one... and it was still doing it!

Thanks for all the help... Paul

Can someone please open a request in JIRA for this issue with specific details pulled from this thread so we can get it sorted for the next patch release? Thanks!

Hi,

Yup, looks like the behavior changed from 1.0.0 to 1.0.2

This should work in 1.0.2 :

- create a template variable called, for example, mainsuggestions. make its type textarea
- assign this to the template that is used by your efieldcheck/eform call and save
- pull up the document containing that eform call and pour your text into the template variable field, newlines and all. save
- edit your form and replace the call to the chunk with the call
to the template variable, i.e. {{mainsuggestions}} -> [*mainsuggestions*]

Matt

Have posted a JIRA bug.. THANKS!