Output as ASCII text

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Last Post: March 7, 2009   (RSS)

By ColinW-O - March 6, 2009

One of my clients is a pigeon racing club (it's a big "sport" here in Europe!) They output their results from races in ASCII text only and I created a Races link where they can cut and paste their results.

I changed the Content field to be text field rather than WYSIWYG so it keeps the same format since they're nicely done in columns etc. However when I publish it obviously outputs in HTML rather than ASCII text so it loses the whole format.

Any way I can change this?

Thanks.

Colin

Re: [ColinW-O] Output as ASCII text

By ross - March 6, 2009

Hi Colin

Thanks for posting!

If you are pasting in plain text, I am not sure where the HTML tags would be coming from in your output.

What I am thinking you can try is on your template stick a <pre> tag before where you start outputting and a </pre> tag after.

That might work. If it doesn't, would you mind posting a link to the page you are working on so I can have a closer look?

Thanks!
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Re: [ross] Output as ASCII text

By ColinW-O - March 6, 2009

The <pre> tags did the job! Awesome.

Thanks.

Re: [ross] Output as ASCII text

By ColinW-O - March 7, 2009

Can you check out http://www.hurp-malta.com/races.shtml?Pozzallo-1---09-11-2008-1 and see why is it displaying tiny ASCII text rather than the normal text?

The <pre> tags did work but it's so small it's hard to read. Maybe I'm missing something?

Thanks.