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field attributes and design
Afternoon everyone!
I am at a loss right now and hopeful someone can help me in this news group. I have created an access db and various tables. I need to copy and paste information from a web site (press releases) into a long field in this access db.... When I do this the formatting attributes change to a straight text string (paragraph formats and carriage returns are removed) upon saving the change. Is there a way I can change the field attributes so that the field can retain the basic layout and formatting so it is easier to read for the user? Also - related - can an ACCESS field retain/read HTML or SHTML code? Bravejoe "That's my opinion. I could be wrong." Dennis Miller "It Doesn't Matter!" Bravejoe remove the "t1","us" and replace "com" with "net" from my email address to reply privately. "There's fodder for the cannons and the guilty ones can all sleep safely." Andy Partridge XTC |
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"Joe Chromy, Jr" wrote in
: Is there a way I can change the field attributes so that the field can retain the basic layout and formatting so it is easier to read for the user? In a word, no. You can download a rich-text control that will save and reproduce text formatting -- try looking at Steve Lebans's site first. A normal memo field and text box control should at least maintain paragraph formatting from a web page: unless the page bas been created by one of these bone-headed, lame-brained morons for whom standards is just a difficult question in spelling-B's, and who think they are clever to use br tags instead of p. Also - related - can an ACCESS field retain/read HTML or SHTML code? If you can be bothered to access the page source and copy-and-paste that, then it will be remembered. It seems to me that it should be possible to automate a Web Browser control on an Access form to display it too; but bear in mind that any half-decent web page will be CSS-driven and you won't neccessarily have access to the CSS file unless you really go out of your way to get that. Best guess is to look at a Rich Text ActiveX control. Hope that helps Tim F |
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