Link Inside Text Area

[son]

I have placed links inside a textarea, so user can right-click and easily copy/paste code. It does not validate and complains there should not be <a /> element in textarea. What could I do instead? Son

[~The Coder~]

I have placed links inside a textarea, so user can right-click and easily copy/paste code. It does not validate and complains there should not be <a /> element in textarea. What could I do instead? Son

Well from reading your post you said "It does not validate and complains there should not be <a /> element in textarea." If you wrote your post correctly, then the browser is right, it shouldn't be their. Instead it should be written with a:

</a>

Don't put the "/" after the "a" put it before. Your link should look like

<a href:"http://www.example.com">Example</a>

[Ingolme]

Well from reading your post you said "It does not validate and complains there should not be <a /> element in textarea." If you wrote your post correctly, then the browser is right, it shouldn't be their. Instead it should be written with a:

</a>

Don't put the "/" after the "a" put it before. Your link should look like

<a href:"http://www.example.com">Example</a>

"<a />" is just a shorthand representation for the full element with attributes and content. A textarea cannot contain HTML elements inside it, you can encode them with entities: <a />But maybe what you wanted was an actual link inside the textarea box. That's not possible. The textarea is only meant to have plain text in it.

[~The Coder~]

"<a />" is just a shorthand representation for the full element with attributes and content.

Oh ok thank you for explaining:)

[son]

Used the entities version which is fine as I only want an easy way for users to grab code that can be inserted into their own pages... Cheers,Son