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JohnB
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How do insert bullets and special characters into text boxes in a launch page? I tried copying and pasting from a Word document, but when the launch page is run, the bullet displays as some other symbol.

Thank you,

John

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WF 7.7.03, Windows 7, HTML, Excel, PDF
 
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You need to code the html escape code and not use the character.

a couple of good sites

http://www.htmlescape.net/htmlescape_tool.html

http://www.ascii.cl/htmlcodes.htm

And remember if you are coding an escape code in WebFOCUS you may need to code it as &|
so that the & is escaped in WebFOCUS.

Whether you need to depends on if you use a fex to launch the HTML page
or if it is launched directly.
 
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How would it be inserted? For example:
 <SPAN id=text5 style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; Z-INDEX: 8; LEFT: 160px; WIDTH: 170px; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; POSITION: absolute; TOP: 150px; HEIGHT: 20px" tabIndex=8 ElementToPaste="true">Site Activity</SPAN></BODY></HTML>


where would you put it in that line of code from the HTML Layout Painter?

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In the text view or by editing the text after creating in the tool.

The tools can create a solution, but you deliver the requirement.
 
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What I meant was what would that line of code look like to have a bullet in front of the text, "Site Activity"?


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• Site Activity 

 & #8226; Site Activity


Without the space, I had to put it in because even between code tags the escape sequence gets rendered.
 
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