I want nothing to show up in the textarea. This suggestion actually puts the
<!-- comment --> in the textarea which is worse.
Stuart Zakon
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From: Wendell Piez [mailto:wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com]
Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2002 1:41 PM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] empty textarea broken in IE6, mozilla
Stuart,
You could generate a comment in your result instead of a space:
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="bodytext">
<xsl:comment> x </xsl:comment>
</textarea>
Such a comment (or processing instruction) is a common workaround when
targeting HTML or SGML systems that don't like XML empty-element syntax.
But since you didn't say why you need to trim the space I can't say if this
is actually an improvement.
Cheers,
Wendell
At 01:27 PM 11/14/2002, you wrote:
I am a bit surprised that empty <textarea> inputs on forms really break
the current generation of browsers, both IE 6 and mozilla 1. Here is my
XSLT:
<!-- Comments -->
<tr valign="top" align="left">
<td width="15%" bgcolor="#ffffff" class="bodytextbold">Comments:</td>
<td colspan="3" bgcolor="#ffffff">
<p>
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="bodytext">
</textarea>
</p>
</td>
</tr>
What happens is that all the HTML on the page after the textarea is
shown by the browsers as the CONTENTS of the text area! (You have to
see the bug to believe it.)
It appears that the problem is that the XSL processor (Xalan-C)
optimizes the empty element as follows:
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="bodytext" />
The browsers absolutely choke on this.
Manually changing the generated HTML to include the </textarea> end tag
fixes the problem.
Is there a way to suppress this optimization of empty elements? My
<xsl:output> method is "html".
I solved the problem temporarily by adding a blank character text node:
<textarea name="comments" cols="50" rows="5" class="bodytext">
<xsl:text> </xsl:text>
</textarea>
However, this is a temporary fix because it forces the <textarea> to
include the blank which I would have to trim later.
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