https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/tags/textarea Gravity Support Forums Tag: textarea - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 19 Apr 2026 19:54:45 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.1 q https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/search.php https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/returns-in-textarea-causing-problems-in-csv-export#post-272918 Fri, 24 May 2013 07:12:36 +0000 post@smart-media.no 272918@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Hi,<br /> You can remove the returns before the data is saved to the database with the following script:</p> <pre><code>add_filter(&quot;gform_save_field_value&quot;, &quot;save_field_value&quot;, 10, 4); function save_field_value($value, $lead, $field, $form){ $new_value = str_replace(array(&quot;\n&quot;, &quot;\t&quot;, &quot;\r&quot;), &#39;&#39;, $value); return $new_value; }</code></pre> <p>\n removes new lines<br /> \t removes tabs<br /> \r remove carriage returns </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-the-export-messages-in-cvs-format-french-languages-messages#post-257719 Fri, 17 May 2013 10:11:23 +0000 ScottSendraDesign 257719@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am experiencing the same problem. When I export a .csv file that includes a "return" in a text field, Excel reads that as a new line. Is the official solution to this to not use the textarea field for user entry of paragraphs? </p> <p>My research into this problem suggests that the csv file should have "/n" for the returns. Is this not happening? Is there a way to filter out returns in the textarea fields beforre their are exported and replace them with another character?</p> <p>The form is located here:<br /> <a href="https://achievefoundation.org/support-us-category/fundraising/honor-your-teacher-3/" rel="nofollow">https://achievefoundation.org/support-us-category/fundraising/honor-your-teacher-3/</a> </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/returns-in-textarea-causing-problems-in-csv-export#post-254514 Wed, 15 May 2013 20:16:00 +0000 ScottSendraDesign 254514@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>I am having an issue when I import Gravity Forms csv forms into Excel. The form I created uses multiple textarea fields. If a return is entered into a textarea, i.e more than one paragraph is added, when I import the csv data into Excel, the return is interpreted as a line break. This messes up my columns quite a bit!</p> <p>Is there a way of filtering for returns and replacing or deleting them? Or a way of preventing certain characters from being allowed in a textarea field?</p> <p>Thank you! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/problem-with-the-export-messages-in-cvs-format-french-languages-messages#post-239714 Mon, 06 May 2013 08:07:27 +0000 Juhlsen 239714@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>We got this problem each time we make a Gravity form and the costumer need the data.<br /> Replicating the problem is easy:</p> <p>1. Just make a form that has various fields including one or more text fields.<br /> 2. Make the form 'live' on a webpage.<br /> 3. Now enter some data into the form from a few 'users'.<br /> 4. In the text input fields try to enter some multi line text with line breaks -as users often do.<br /> 5. Export the form data to a .csv file.</p> <p>If you then try to import the data into an Excel then the user data without linebreaks will import ok into each column and create a new line for each user.</p> <p>However whenever a text field got a linebreak within the "" then excel will start a new line and the data for that user gets split over one or more lines and put into the wrong columns.</p> <p>There are no simple solution to fix this in Excel so the data remains completely useless for the costumer. You can try to fix it manually but this is very hard when the form got data from thousands of users.</p> <p>One of our developers has made a routine to fix the .csv files.<br /> But Gravity Forms need a build in solution if we should continue to use it - as costumers must be able to export and import into Excel them self.</p> <p>A simple solution would be an option to export form data with linebreaks within "" converted into something like "&lt;/br&gt;" or "*LB*" or "|" (maybe user specified) when exported. Then it can be imported into Excel correctly and you can then replace the code in Excel with something else. </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/width-of-paragraph-text#post-239308 Mon, 06 May 2013 02:26:06 +0000 Richard Vav 239308@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>The size setting for the textarea field actually only adjusts the height, not the width, so to reduce it's width to match your other fields you can add the following towards the bottom of your themes style.css file<br /> <pre><code>.gform_wrapper textarea { width: 47% !important; }</code></pre> <p>Regards,<br /> Richard<br /> --<br /> Just another member of the community helping out where I can </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/width-of-paragraph-text#post-239198 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:53:19 +0000 simonefitzy 239198@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p><a href="http://www.papersprinkles.com.au/contact/" rel="nofollow">http://www.papersprinkles.com.au/contact/</a></p> <p>I have a problem with the 'Message' (paragraph text) input box being the full width - I have changed the settings for it to be a Medium size, but it didn't reduce the size - it still appears to be the large size. </p> <p>The other fields are all Medium size and appearing as I need them to.</p> <p>Any suggestions? Thanks </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-font-size-for-forms#post-224815 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 01:32:13 +0000 yogini 224815@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Ok so I was able to figure out how to do a global text input increase from the gravity forms FAQs.</p> <p>The only issue now is how to do that for the text input in my contact form widget??</p> <p>Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-font-size-for-forms#post-224749 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:32:22 +0000 yogini 224749@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Did I need to cut and paste this into my gravity forms plugin styles sheets (if so, which one?) as opposed to the style.css sheet for my theme in general? Thanks! </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-font-size-for-forms#post-224744 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:24:36 +0000 yogini 224744@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>Thanks! Copied and pasted as you said but it didn't seem to increase the font at all for any part of my forms... </p> https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/topic/change-font-size-for-forms#post-221282 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 17:23:50 +0000 Richard Vav 221282@https://legacy.forums.gravityhelp.com/ <p>You're welcome, that's correct, just copy to your style.css and customise to suit your needs. </p>