Manipulating data
We are going to add one more input to our form, which will be for the user's description. In the description, we will parse for things, such as e-mails, and then create both a plain text and HTML version of the user's description.
The HTML for this form is pretty straightforward; we will be using a standard textbox and give it an appropriate field:
Description: <br /> <textarea id="description_field"></textarea><br />
Next, let's start with the bare scaffold needed to begin processing the form data:
function process_description() { var field = document.getElementById("description_field"); var description = field.value; data.text_description = description; // More Processing Here data.html_description = "<p>" + description + "</p>"; ...Get JavaScript Regular Expressions now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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