Re: IE6 not returning POST data from a textarea

From: Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 01:33:40 +0000
Subject: Re: IE6 not returning POST data from a textarea
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Al wrote:
Anyone know to get IE6 to return POST data from a textarea when the text is pasted in? Works fine for Mozilla, etc. print_r($_POST) shows several <input...> and <text ...> values just fine. Thanks....
For those interested, here is the answer... Text pasted into a textarea [e.g., from Word] can have characters not defined in IE's textarea ISO-8859-1 charset. Appearently, IE6 has a bug such that it does not send the POST value for the textarea name when some of these are present. [e.g., "…" char [hex 85]] I don't know how many. You can get it to work by right-mouse selecting Encoding UTF-8 on the client browser or use in the html header: <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" >

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