innerHTML and style attributes

[brian4cards]

I have an application where a user can create a newsletter with a
contenteditable div box and submit it to a database. The problem occurs
when the user tries to edit their newsletter. The edit page looks
exactly like the create page only their already created newsletter is
supposed to appear in the contenteditable div box. To do this I
retrieve the information from the database in the server side. Then I
have the following client side script.

window.onload=doInit
function doInit() {
var content = "<%=sContent%>";
div.innerHTML = content;
}

This seems to work in all cases except if the HTML to be displayed
contains any style attributes. For example, if any of the text has
background color then the HTML code will have the tag <font
style="bacground-color: #000000"> and this will cause nothing to appear
in the div box. Has anyone run into this problem or know how to fix it?

 

[RobG]

I have an application where a user can create a newsletter with a
contenteditable div box and submit it to a database. The problem occurs
when the user tries to edit their newsletter. The edit page looks
exactly like the create page only their already created newsletter is
supposed to appear in the contenteditable div box. To do this I
retrieve the information from the database in the server side. Then I
have the following client side script.

window.onload=doInit
function doInit() {
var content = "<%=sContent%>";
div.innerHTML = content;
}

This seems to work in all cases except if the HTML to be displayed
contains any style attributes. For example, if any of the text has
background color then the HTML code will have the tag <font
style="bacground-color: #000000"> and this will cause nothing to appear
in the div box. Has anyone run into this problem or know how to fix it?

Have you tried changing the *background-color* property? It works for
me.

I'd also suggest replacing the deprecated font element with a span.