Text As HTML - Server Format for Dreamweaver

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"Text As HTML"
Server Format for Dreamweaver

This product is fully compatible with Adobe Dreamweaver CS3!

Parse links in plain text - make them clickable!

Dynamic Text

Server Format

Remove existing HTML (if present)
Replace physical line breaks with HTML ones (<br> tags)
Parse all the URLs in the text and convert them to clickable hyperlinks (email addresses and absolute URLs starting with www., http://, https:// and ftp://)

With Text as HTML Server Format you can securely disable HTML in a dynamic output while allowing external hyperlinks and basic text formatting (Successfully used on message boards, blogs, forums, guest books, content management systems, etc).

Example

Original output:
<h1>Details:</h1>
More Dreamweaver extensions can be found at :<br> http://www.linecraft.com/extensions.php<hr>
<script>window.open("http://www.linecraft.com/extensions.php")</script>

Output with Server Format applied:
Details:
More Dreamweaver extensions can be found at : http://www.linecraft.com/extensions.php
window.open(\"http://www.linecraft.com/extensions.php\")

Server Compatibility

This Server Format is compatible with ASP (VBScript), ASP.NET (VB) and PHP/MySQL.

Access

As any Dreamweaver Server Format it can be applied by accessing it from either the Bindings panel or the Server Behaviors panel.

Using Bindings panel:
1. Select Dynamic Text on the page.
2. Select Text As HTML from the Format column in the Binding panel.

Using Server Behaviors panel:
1. Doubleclick a Dynamic Text item in the panel.
2. Select Text As HTML from the Format dropdown in the Dynamic Text dialog box.

Product Compatibility

Dreamweaver MX 2004
Dreamweaver 8
Dreamweaver CS3

Demo

Use the text box below to type some text with links (no HTML required ), then click RUN and observe the parsed output below: