I do a simple little preview with javascript that seems to please most folks.
You can get as creative as you like with it but the basic concept, I'm sure
anyone can figure out on their own, is to open a new window;
var preview = window.open('preview',url, options);
By naming it, you can reuse it... but more importantly...
preview.document.writeln('<html>...');
I have a demo of this, free for the asking (just email me), that could pretty
much be copied and pasted in -- offering some configurable variables for color
and such. Simply putting such a function behind a 'preview' button would allow
someone to see the content of the text box... which you push by concatenating
your window.document.forms[0].inputname.value over with the above .println(
command.
Once you push the value to a (scrollable) pop-up window, folks can see what
their text looks like outside the box, as it were. Handy for a clean reread.
Since you're pushing html, you can write an OK push button right into it, or a
print button, or include stylesheets... fun and easy.
I do a simple little preview with javascript that seems to please most folks. You can get as creative as you like with it but the basic concept, I'm sure anyone can figure out on their own, is to open a new window;
var preview = window.open('preview',url, options);
By naming it, you can reuse it... but more importantly...
preview.document.writeln('<html>...');
I have a demo of this, free for the asking (just email me), that could pretty much be copied and pasted in -- offering some configurable variables for color and such. Simply putting such a function behind a 'preview' button would allow someone to see the content of the text box... which you push by concatenating your window.document.forms[0].inputname.value over with the above .println( command.
Once you push the value to a (scrollable) pop-up window, folks can see what their text looks like outside the box, as it were. Handy for a clean reread. Since you're pushing html, you can write an OK push button right into it, or a print button, or include stylesheets... fun and easy.
Jerry