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#1 08-03-2006, 02:17 PM

Apologies for the vague thread title, I'm not really sure the best way to say it.

If I write a bit of HTML up, say (from a quick view source here) I paste this into a message:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
</body>
</html>

Without wordwrap and whatnot, it looks just fine, validated, and formats to a proper page-width on a standard html page.

Now, that's one big, long line and nobody writing that code would honestly scroll their screen 200 miles to the right. They'd hit return at the end of the line. HTML-kit even does it. Since there's no <br> code, it's not actually putting extra code in, it's just making it easier for the guy actually writing it line by line.

However, if I paste this into a vB thread:

Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled</title>
</head>
<body>
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a
larger sense, we can not dedicate - we can not consecrate - we
can not hallow - this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who
struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to
add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember
what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It
is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the
unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly
advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great
task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take
increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last
full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these
dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God,
shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the
people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the
earth.
</body>
</html>

vB will parse every carriage return as a line break, and I end up with a bit of text that looks like, well, this:

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this
continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to
the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are
engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any
nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met
on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a
portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who
here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is
altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a...

So my question then, is how can I turn HTML on, but disable the basic message parser that creates those line breaks? For example, if I type:

Code:

my name
is Chris
and I 
like pie

I want vB to output it as "my name is Chris and I like pie". If I type:

Code:

My name<br />
is Chris and I<br />
like pie.<br />

Then I want it to parse the html. I believe that if I use [noparse], it will ignore the HTML as well.

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