Re: New Question...tables

Hi, Friday, September 27, 2002, 10:20:32 AM, you wrote: SM> Thanks to Micah Ive resolved my old problem, but now im working on something new and fairly SM> gnarly...i ahve a data entry form and one of the textareas on the form needs to have the ability to SM> take a table...from users who dont know html. does anyone know any possible solutions to this SM> dilemma? It would be easy if the field would always have a table with specific properties, but that SM> is not the case, there may or may not be a table and the number of rows and colums used and SM> data input into the table if it does exist will vary from record to record. Is there any way to SM> accomplish this tha tyou can think of? Im almost certain that there is nothing quick and easy SM> but i was wondering if anyone out there had ideas. Just FYI i plan on having a seperat page to view SM> data with that will pull the data out of a table, and, ideally format the html into a table SM> for display. Have them enter the data as a comma delimited list like this: [table] Name,Address,City,Country Tom,Home,Brisbane,Australia ... [/table] Then you could parse looking for [table] and work on the data after till [/table] The first row would be the column headers. -- regards, Tom