Name
ParagraphFormat
Synopsis
ParagraphFormat(string
)
Returns string
formatted so that single
newline characters are replaced with a space character, and double
newline characters are replaced with HTML
<p>
tags. ParagraphFormat(
)
is most often used to format text that has been entered
in a Textarea
HTML form field. Example:
<cfset MyText="This is my block of text. It has both single newline characters in it like this paragraph, and double newline characters like in the next paragraph. This is the paragraph with the double newline characters."> <form action="" method="Post"> <cfoutput> <textarea cols=50 rows=10 name="TheText" wrap="virtual">#ParagraphFormat(MyText)#</textarea> </cfoutput> </form>
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