Re: Dynamically changing textbox to multiline

Neil wrote:

> [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.

The code I was looking at doesn't run in the case of converting a 
textbox to multiline, so you'll have to save the value manually.

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