to control text wraping

Hi All,

I have a textarea on a page that accepts data froma user. Sometimes the users enter junk.

Eg: !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! .... Add another 300 such chars.

In our backend system, when we display the feedback that we get from the user, the page gets strecthed (almost a endless horizontal scroll bar.)

I have set the TD width to about 300. The table width is set to 800.

The textarea on the frontend looks like this "<textarea name="feedback" wrap="virtual" rows="3" class="answer" id="answerBox"></textarea>"

Is their a way to force it to break or wrap around, instead of strecthing the page ?

Any leads or suggestions will be useful.

rig

I dont know of a way with html/css to constrain the display size of a continuous string of chars like that. You could use wrap="hard" in your textarea. Problem is, this literally inserts carriage returns into the data the user provided, which can lead to other problems.

Other than that, I suppose you could parse the input client side with JS before submitting, or server-side with CF, and if a single word is longer than is acceptable, then reject the input. Or just get rid of the malicious users if you have that level of access control.

Using javascript would do the trick and is the only way I've figured out this problem. You can limit the user to a maximum amount by not letting the cursor leave the form or preventing submission or something when the max has been exceeded.