Web - Output stored HTML to browser

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Hi all,

I might just be missing something obvious, but searching didn’t seem to find what I’m after.

Question 1:

My app will be hosted in Xojo cloud, it will use a database. For some pages I need to store the HTML that will be the “body” of the page in the database and output that to the page.

Image, I have a logo, a toolbar menu, then below that is an area I need to push HTML do as the content of the page.

The reason I wish to do this is that I have a list of events. For each event a small HTML description is stored. So I need to iterate through the events and push their descriptions to the page.

I tried putting a multiline label on the page, pushing the HTML to that but the browser did not interpret the mark up. So the user sees things like

This event

etc.

So how do you directly output some HTML to be painted on a page?

Question 2: (this might be obvious from question 1)

Are there any “content management” systems built for Xojo web apps. I am sort fo doing this in my app. I’m providing my non tech savoy users with a way to type in their descriptions using an HTML editor and upload that description, store it in the database then be able to push that mark up back on the display page.

Thanks in advance.

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The WebHTMLViewer may help you:

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Hi AlbertoD, I will take a look at that. Thanks

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If you mean an easier way to enter rich text, GraffitiSuite has an editor called SimpleEditor but it’s hard to link directly to features so you’ll have to check out the demo.

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Hi Tim, that looks kinda cool. It is not at all clear as you say how to use it so will have to dig in a little.