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Answered How make Formit to send Code in Textarea ?

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    compiler Reply #1, 12 years, 1 month ago
    Hey guys, i have a - hopefully not too noobish - question

    How can i make formit2db to send source code ?

    This is my Code

    <div id="detail">
           <label for="detail">Detail:[[!+fi.error.detail:notempty=`<span class="label label-important">This is a required field</span>`]]</label>
              <div class="controls">
                  <textarea name="detail" rows="6" cols="32">[[!+fi.detail]]</textarea>
              </div>
      </div>


    Now i want to submit source code ... like i wanna type in 
    <img src="abc.gif" /> This is a image
    but when i do this, it's being totaly ignored and all is being submit is
    "This is a image"

    any suggestions on this ?

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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      sottwell Reply #2, 12 years, 1 month ago
      What do you mean by "send source code"? Send it where?
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        compiler Reply #3, 12 years, 1 month ago
        my submit button puts it into a new database entry. but this doesn't matter at all...
        I have several validation requirements as parameters....

        ...[[!+fi.detail]]...

        forces it to keep the desired text in my text area even if submitting causes errorss becaus of validation

        If my Textarea contains following:
        This <h2> is a </h2> test


        and i get (e.g.) a error because of validation, my textarea becomes:

        This is a Test


        And so will it also be sent in my database, without the brackets and the stuff in between
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          sottwell Reply #4, 12 years, 1 month ago
          Sounds like a strip_tags being used in there somewhere. Maybe something like this?
          [[!FormIt? &validate=`text:required:stripTags`...
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            compiler Reply #5, 12 years, 1 month ago
            That helped me , thank you very much !

            So by the way: How can i get a WYSIWYG Texteditor running with Formit2db ?
            I tried Tinymce but i just get plain text out of it