DATAFORMATAS Attribute | dataFormatAs Property

Sets or retrieves how the data supplied to the object should be rendered.

Syntax

HTML	<ELEMENT DATAFORMATAS = "text" | "html" ... >
Scripting	object.dataFormatAs [ = sFormat ]

Possible Values

text	Data rendered as text.
html	Data rendered as HTML.

The property is read/write with a default value of text.

Remarks

The property can be set at design time and at run time. At design time, use the DATAFORMATAS attribute.

Example

In the following DIV and SPAN examples, the data will be supplied in HTML format. In the TEXTAREA example, the data will be supplied in text format.

Sample Code

<DIV DATAFLD="Column2" DATAFORMATAS="html"></DIV>

<SPAN DATASRC="#bank_acct" DATAFLD="balance" DATAFORMATAS="html"></SPAN>

<TEXTAREA DATASRC="#customer" DATAFLD="address" DATAFORMATAS="text" 
    ROWS=6 COLS=60>
</TEXTAREA>

Applies To

BODY, BUTTON, DIV, INPUT type=button, LABEL, MARQUEE, PARAM, SPAN

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