Manipulating data

We are going to add one more input to our form, which will be for the user's description. In the description, we will parse for things, such as e-mails, and then create both a plain text and HTML version of the user's description.

The HTML for this form is pretty straightforward; we will be using a standard textbox and give it an appropriate field:

Description: <br />
<textarea id="description_field"></textarea><br />

Next, let's start with the bare scaffold needed to begin processing the form data:

function process_description() {
    var field = document.getElementById("description_field");
    var description = field.value;

    data.text_description = description;

    // More Processing Here

    data.html_description = "<p>" + description + "</p>";

    return true;
}

fns.push(process_description);

This code gets the text from the textbox on the page and then saves both a plain text version and an HTML version of it. At this stage,...