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hi,
i don't know coding and trying to find if is it possible to have a text area pre filled and has an image and a link and some text. is it possibele? below is what i am trying to do
please help. thank you
this is what i would like to do

<form name="statusUpdate" action="" method="">
<textarea type="hidden" name="status" id="status" rows="400" cols="500">
<http://www.mywebsite.com/> ---come to my website---
<image> ttext text
text text
<http://www.mywebsite.com/> ---- come to my website---
</textarea>

<body onLoad="updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling();">

unfortunatly this is what i have

<form name="statusUpdate" action="" method="">
<textarea type="hidden" name="status" id="status" rows="400" cols="500">
http://www.mywebsite.com/
text text
text text
http://www.mywebsite.com/
</textarea>

<body onLoad="updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling();">

many thanks

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<textarea> can only contain plain text. No code or images.
What is the point of this textarea? Are you doing it with only HTML or is PHP an option?

From the "<form name='statusUpdate'..." it looks like this will be displayed on a page?

If that's the case, use what all forums use, BBcode.
BBcode just replaces characters with HTML, so

[image]link[/image]
would be
<img href="link" />
Search for replacing strings with php, or find a pre-built BBcode "plugin"

Edited by makman99 because: n/a
Member Avatar for serdas

yeah but i cannot do that,i have to do it only on that page
if that is not possible, is there a way to replace the textarea with something else and still be able to use this <body onLoad="updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling();">

thanks

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So you only have HTML to work with?
What does the javascript function do?

And why is your <body> tag after output? It should be above anything being printed.

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i honestly dont know.
and the file is actually a php file. there was a text area for users to fill and submit and i think the function is handle somewhere else but i wanted to change it to pre filled and sumbitted automaticly when users visit that page and it does it but unfortunatly i cannot add an image or hide the full link it shows the whole thing
thanks

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    #tabs ul li{
        font-size: 80%;
    }
    #tabs pre{
        font-size: 138%;
    }
    #tabs{
        font-size: 70%;
    }
    #tabs div a{
        color: blue;
    }
    .ui-tabs .ui-tabs-nav {
        padding: 0 !important;
    }
</style>
    
        


<form name="statusUpdate" action="" method="">
<textarea type="hidden" name="status" id="status" rows="400" cols="500">
http://www.mywebsite.com/
text text
text text
http://www.mywebsite.com/
</textarea>

<body onLoad="updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling();">
Member Avatar for makman99

So when users visit this page, it automatically sends data from a textbox?
What is the data doing? Is it being put into a sql table for display?

If that's the case, why not scrap the textbox, and just make a variable that contains HTML for what you want it to look like. Use regular <img> tags for images, etc...

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i dont understand, i have no understanding of coding and there are others codes are handling things, all i want to do is submit that data using with this
<body onLoad="updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling();">
and it seems to work with that form with a text area.

thanks

Member Avatar for makman99

Can you find the file containing that function and post the function here.

Have you tried just using plain HTML for the image?

Edited by makman99 because: n/a
Member Avatar for serdas

i think this is it but i am not sure

function updateStatus(){
                var status  =   document.getElementById('status').value;
                
                jQuery.ajax({
                    type: "POST",
                    url: "<?=$fbconfig['baseUrl']?>/ajax.php",
                    data: "status=" + status,
                    success: function(msg){
                        alert(msg);
                    },
                    error: function(msg){
                        alert(msg);
                    }
                });
            }
            function updateStatusViaJavascriptAPICalling(){
                var status  =   document.getElementById('status').value;
                    FB.api('/me/feed', 'post', { message: status }, function(response) {
                        if (!response || response.error) {
                             alert('Error occured');
                        } else {
                             alert('Status updated Successfully');
                        }
                   });
            }
Member Avatar for makman99

Ok, try
<img href="linkhere" />
replace linkhere with your image link and see if that does what you want.

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that what exactly happens

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Wow I feel stupid.
It's supposed to be "src=" not "href="
But that still won't work. Where did you get this code from? It looks like you'll need to change some stuff so it allows HTML.

Edited by makman99 because: n/a
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oh well i cannot, and i cannot reach to the person, i gess i will have to use it the way it, i appreciate you trying to help

thanks

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would anyone has any other idea?

thank you

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