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 CS5!

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
Dreamweaver CS4
Dreamweaver CS5

Demo

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