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carriage return in a webbrowser control

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  4 years ago

  by williamhall

  William Hall

  Sydney, Austalia, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago

  I have a webbrowser control that points to a website that has an html form in it.  From the users perspective everything works just like internet explorer in the webbrowser control with the exception of putting a carriage return in html form field (textarea).  This control seems to ignore user "carriage returns".  <tabs> work like they should, going from one html field to another within the webbrowser control.

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  4 years ago

  by clwprogrammer

  clwprogrammer

  , United States

  Joined 4 years ago

  try using ctrl+enter
  

  
  this should enter a carriage return into the text field

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  4 years ago

  by williamhall

  William Hall

  Sydney, Austalia, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago
  Tried that and several other key combinations(shift-enter,shit-ctl-enter).  They didn't work.
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  4 years ago

  by clwprogrammer

  clwprogrammer

  , United States

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  what website are you loading in the webbrowser control?
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  4 years ago

  by williamhall

  William Hall

  Sydney, Austalia, Australia

  Joined 4 years ago

  Any webpage with a texteara field will not put a carriage return with ctrl-enter or enter.  Fortunately for me I finally did find a key that would put an enter in this html form field, ctl-m.
  I was working with MS access and here is what I did to make "carriage return" work like it should on a textarea field.
  

  
  You set the keypreview to "on" on the main form.
  On the main form put this code on the keyup event
  

  
  if keycode = 13 then
   sendkeys "^m"
  end if
  

  
  If this has helped anyone send an email to williamhall@brooklyngroup.com.au,
  at least I know I wasnt the only one to run into this problem.

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