I’m trying to get the number of lines that a textarea has for a line counter (for a text editor), but if there is an emtpy line in the textarea, there are two new lines added. Here is the output: My code: At someone’s request, here is the HTML: Basically I plan on adding syntax highlighting, so th…
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getting textarea value with newlines javascript
I have an HTML textarea and when data entered, and when submitted a js function takes values form textarea and puts them into a paragraph. but there is newline between textarea values and when the function takes those values it puts them without newlines in the paragraph. Is there any way to make newlines eve…
Is there a way to have different colored text inside a textarea?
I have an HTML Textarea, which contains a custom-made live editable JSON file where you can see the results of the edits in real-time. I also have something that can cycle through the entries in a “points” attribute, being a list, where it shows the results in the canvas where the JSON results are…
Copy text from textarea to clipboard – Python
I’m trying to enable a Copy button that will copy the content from the textarea, I gave an example of my HTML file and JS, I tried in all ways but I didn’t succeed. Thanks for your help. My HTML My copy.js Answer You can also use navigator.clipboard. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/AP…
Highlight specific words in textarea angular 8
I am trying to select a few words from the textarea and create bootstrap chips. I am able to create the chips for selected words. I am trying to highlight the selected words with different background colors. I am not sure how to highlight the words in the selectedText array. I want to highlight all chip words…
Vuetify- How to make a link in the textarea clickable?
I have a simple v-textarea Is there a way to detect that a link has been inserted and make it change color and be clickable? Such as this https://stackoverflow.com/. Answer You cannot make clickable links inside textareas (v-textarea is just a wrapper around a native one). They are for plain text only. As a p…
How can I type in a textarea and have that text be added to a contenteditable div?
I have a <div contenteditable=”true”> and a <textarea> on my page. I need to get the text that is typed in the textarea to be displayed in the div, while keeping the text that was already in the div. I already kind of achieved that with a keyup function on the textarea but it is not wo…
How to execute script only after button onclick?
I have a script that auto-replaces specific characters like double spaces into single space and straight quotes into smart quotes in the textarea However, when I try to add onclick feature, it’s not working for me, it’s still executing it before the click of a button (the moment it detects the cha…
How to use straight and smart quotes in auto-replace script for textarea?
I’m really stuck again on how to properly combine these lines to auto-replace straight quotes into smart ones in the text area. It was working earlier, however after I added a line to fix the cursor going at the end after replacing a character. Here’s what is currently looks like: Commas, semicolo…
How to get single clicked word from textarea using JavaScript
Is it possible to get clicked word from textarea using jquery or javascript in IE and Firefox. Currently i’m using the below code and it’s working perfectly fine in Chrome but it doesn’t work at all in IE and Firefox. Expected Working Let’s suppose a textarea with text: ‘Hello Wo…