How to handle free-form text fields

obrienj

I have several free-form text fields that can could contain ', ", \n, other special characters, and full fledged HTML produced by one of the recommended editors to be used in Datatables Editor.

What is the best approach to handling these fields that makes them palatable to DataTables, Datatables Editor, javascript, PHP, and MySql.

I have had a problem yet, but so far in testing I have used simple text sand I'd rather build the correct way right off.

Regards,
Jim

allan

Hi Jim,

Whitespace in HTML is ignored, so \n wouldn't have any effect in the cell output. You could use a renderer if you want to replace the \n with a <br> though.

In Editor use textarea and the \n will be rendered as a new line character.

Allan