The textarea form field is currently rendered as HTML, e.g. multiple lines of a textarea get rendered as one line. See example at Sandbox.TestTextArea.

It is probably more natural to render textarea test as lines separated by <br />.

This will also solve the Support.FormattedSearchProblem where you can't use TWiki's table syntax to render a textarea.

While we are at it, should the textarea text be rendered in fixed font, preserving spaces?

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Nov 2001

IMHO this fits in quit well with my enhancement request TWikiFormatingInsideCells:

The textarea could be entered in normal TWiki format an would be rendered as usual, i.e. the Sandbox.TestTextArea would be rendered as multiple lines (paragraphs) if separated by empty lines. Font etc would also follow normal TWiki formatting rules.

-- FritzBosch - 30 Nov 2001

This is a good idea, a textarea is just another TWiki formatted text area. In this case we need to define some syntax in FormattedSearch to render a textarea in a TWiki table.

-- PeterThoeny - 27 Nov 2001

It should not be necessary to change the FormattedSearch syntax. An extension to the table syntax (see TWikiFormattingInsideCells) would give full control for this case, plus it would make table formatting much more powerful (and IMHO this should/can not be handled by TablePlugin)

-- FritzBosch - 03 Dec 2001