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TextToCSS ( text )

Returns a valid CSS, including all alignments, styles and colors of the original text.

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Daniele Raybaudi - Show more from this author ACI http://www.aci.it

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/* TextToCSS ( text ) custom function Author Daniele Raybaudi Type Recursive Returns a valid CSS, including all alignments, styles and colors of the original text. ( GetAsCSS ( ) can't do it !! ) A Web Viewer set as: "data: text / html, <style type='text/css'> body {border: none; overflow: hidden;} </style>" & TextToCSS ( YourTable::text ) shows exactly the content of the field. 09/19/2013 v1 09/20/2013 v1.1 ( minor bug corrected ) */ Let([ $i = $i + 1 ; v = GetValue ( text ; $i ) ; css = GetAsCSS ( v ) ; pos1 = Position ( css ; "text-align:" ; 1 ; 1 ) + 11; pos2 = Position ( css ; ";" ; pos1 ; 1 ) ; align = If ( PatternCount ( css ; "text-align:" ) ; Middle ( css ; pos1 ; pos2 - pos1 ) ); div = If ( IsEmpty ( v ) ; "<BR>" ; "<div style='text-align:" & align & ";'>" & css & "</div>" ) ]; Case( $i ≤ ValueCount ( text ) ; List ( div ; TextToCSS ( text ) ) ; Let ( $i = "" ; "" ) ) ) Click to copy

Returns a valid CSS, including all alignments, styles and colors of the original text. ( GetAsCSS ( ) can't do it !! )

A Web Viewer set as:

"data: text / html, " & TextToCSS ( YourTable::text )

shows exactly the content of the field.

You could try the example file at: http://fmforums.com/forum/index.php?app=core&module=attach§ion=attach&attach_id=20326

 

Comments

		MB, Madrid Oct 27, 2016
This is a great concept, but the first alignment tag is applied to all the text. So if I have a titled centered followed by a left justified paragraph, when I apply this function both the title and the paragraph appear centered.

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