Re: Dynamically changing textbox to multiline
Neil <[email protected]>
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[email protected] wrote: >I am trying to dynamically change a single line textbox to multiline when a user pastes in text containing newline characters. > >The problem is that when I do "setAttribute('multiline', true)" the textbox is converted to multiline, but the value in the textbox is lost. Is this a bug or am I missing something? > > Changing the textbox to multiline is achieved by deleting the HTML input element and creating a textarea element in its place. There is some ancient code that might copy the value from one to the other but offhand I don't even know if it gets a chance to run. Even if it did work you would probably want to preserve the selection range. -- Warning: May contain traces of nuts.