I'm trying to get the word wrapped line breaks from a textarea without having make any server calls. This answer gets me 90% of the way there. The problem is that the page is reloaded inside of the iframe each time the submit button is clicked. Here's the code:
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<html>
<body>
<script type="text/javascript">
function getURLParameter(qs, name) {
var pattern = "[\\?&]" + name + "=([^&#]*)";
var regex = new RegExp(pattern);
var res = regex.exec(qs);
if (res == null)
return "";
else
return res[1];
}
function getHardWrappedText() {
var frm_url = document.getElementById('frame').contentDocument.URL;
var text = unescape(getURLParameter(document.getElementById('frame').contentDocument.URL, 'text')).replace(/\+/g, ' ');
return text;
}
function onIFrameLoad() {
var text = getHardWrappedText();
console.log(text);
}
window.onload = function() {
console.log("loading")
};
</script>
<form name="form" method="get" target="frame">
<textarea id="text" name="text" cols=5 wrap="hard">a b c d e f</textarea>
<input type="submit">
</form>
<iframe id="frame" name="frame" onload="onIFrameLoad()" style="display:none;"></iframe>
</body>
</html>
Clicking on the submit button gives the output:
loading
a b c d e
f
Is there a way to prevent the iframe from reloading the page?
You have to return a false to the onsubmit event of the form.
<form name="form" method="get" target="frame" onsubmit="onIFrameLoad">
If it is based on some condition that you do not want to load
Am just putting a random thing at
text.indexOf('\n')<0
, you can have anything that makes sense or always return false (which looks unlikely)